This is ASA's issue. I hit it many times. When you see this, the workaround
is to write mem and reload the routers.

The issue is that ASA keeps sending un-acceptable key lengths.



With regards
Kings

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Kyle Ross <[email protected]> wrote:

>  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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