Hi,

at one of our sites we are experiencing intermittent connection problems thanks to our ISP (hosts unreachable, timeouts, etc). This has been going on for weeks now and it affects the stability of our established IPSec tunnels to client sites. We are using StrongSwan 4.3.2 on Ubuntu 10.04.2 Server. Before the problems began the tunnels were running fine for months so I doubt this is a configuration problem on our end.

Running "ipsec restart" after such a connection problem occured re-establishes the tunnel and connectivity is restored. Before restarting the tunnels seem to be in a state described by "ipsec statusall" as follows (hope this is legible, the lines are quite long):

000 "conn0": 80.x.y.112/32===80.x.y.112---80.x.y.100...192.z.k.4===10.10.30.28/32; prospective erouted; eroute owner: #0 000 "conn0": ike_life: 86400s; ipsec_life: 3600s; rekey_margin: 540s; rekey_fuzz: 100%; keyingtries: 0 000 "conn0": policy: PSK+ENCRYPT+TUNNEL+PFS+UP; prio: 32,32; interface: eth1;
000 "conn0":   newest ISAKMP SA: #0; newest IPsec SA: #0;

000 #12236: "conn0" STATE_QUICK_I1 (sent QI1, expecting QR1); EVENT_RETRANSMIT in 27s

000 80.x.y.112/32:0 -> 10.10.30.28/32:22 => %hold:6 0    %acquire-netlink

What can I do to debug this and possible even prevent it from happening? Any hints or pointers are welcome, especially RTFM links. I attached the ipsec.conf file for this example tunnel, if needed.

Thanks in advance!

Andreas
config setup
        plutodebug=none
        charonstart=no
        plutostart=yes

conn conn0:
    type            = tunnel
    left            = %defaultroute
    leftid          = 80.x.y.112
    leftsourceip    = 80.x.y.112
    right           = 192.z.k.4
    rightsubnet     = 10.10.30.28/32
    auth            = esp
    pfs             = yes
    pfsgroup        = modp1536
    compress        = no
    esp             = 3des-sha1!
    ike             = 3des-sha1-modp1536!
    ikelifetime     = 86400s
    keylife         = 3600s
    keyingtries     = %forever
    keyexchange     = ikev1
    authby          = psk
    auto            = start

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