Hello Everyone,


I had an interesting thing happen to me today building a L2L tunnel between an 
IOS router and an ASA firewall.   MM phase 1 was failing even though the atts 
were identical. This is the debug off the router:



Dec 15 15:30:25.251: ISAKMP:(0):Checking ISAKMP transform 1 against priority 30 
policy
Dec 15 15:30:25.251: ISAKMP:      default group 2
Dec 15 15:30:25.251: ISAKMP:      encryption 3DES-CBC
Dec 15 15:30:25.251: ISAKMP:    keylength of 56797
Dec 15 15:30:25.251: ISAKMP:      hash SHA
Dec 15 15:30:25.251: ISAKMP:      auth pre-share
Dec 15 15:30:25.251: ISAKMP:      life type in seconds
Dec 15 15:30:25.251: ISAKMP:      life duration (VPI) of  0x0 0x1 0x51 0x80
Dec 15 15:30:25.251: ISAKMP:(0):Unexpected key length attribute
Dec 15 15:30:25.251: ISAKMP:(0):atts are not acceptable. Next payload is 0
Dec 15 15:30:25.251: ISAKMP:(0):no offers accepted!
Dec 15 15:30:25.251: ISAKMP:(0): phase 1 SA policy not acceptable!



After a looking a little harder I see the key length attribute in the Phase 1 
SA, why?  Thinking that my router was going sideways I decided to reloaded the 
router.  When it came back up the same problem was still there.  After some 
tinkering I decided to reload the ASA and the key length attribute was no 
longer a variable.

Dec 15 15:33:51.595: ISAKMP:(0):Checking ISAKMP transform 1 against priority 30 
policy
Dec 15 15:33:51.595: ISAKMP:      default group 2
Dec 15 15:33:51.595: ISAKMP:      encryption 3DES-CBC
Dec 15 15:33:51.595: ISAKMP:      hash SHA
Dec 15 15:33:51.595: ISAKMP:      auth pre-share
Dec 15 15:33:51.595: ISAKMP:      life type in seconds
Dec 15 15:33:51.595: ISAKMP:      life duration (VPI) of  0x0 0x1 0x51 0x80
Dec 15 15:33:51.595: ISAKMP:(0):atts are acceptable. Next payload is 0
Dec 15 15:33:51.595: ISAKMP:(0):Acceptable atts:actual life: 0
Dec 15 15:33:51.595: ISAKMP:(0):Acceptable atts:life: 0



Does anyone know why this happened? Is there something I can do to prevent this 
from happening?



Kyle


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