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czar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I have already have a working vpn between r55 and freeswan on debian
> (sarge).  But with pix, no success - No valid SA issue.

It's important to realize that the "No valid SA" messages that fill up
your logs are red herrings.  They do NOT tell you about the nature of
the problem.  They are only a side effect of the tunnel negotiation
failing to occur.

Checkpoint (at least from R55 onward) actually has quite good messages
about the nature of the negotiation failures, but you must find them by
searching for traffic occurring between the pair of gateways, not
between the target VPN networks.

If the IKE negotiation traffic is not showing up in the logs, you need
to enable logging of implicit rules.

The number one log message I find is "No proposal chosen" which means
that the IPSEC parameters do not agree with each other.  Parameters are
things like encryption type (3DES/MD5 on one side, vs. AES/SHA1 on the
other) if the negotiation fails at phase 1, or subnet differences if the
negotiation fails at phase 2.

The number two most popular failure is a mismatch in shared secrets.

Beyond that is may take some digging.

cisco4ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On the CP side, run "vpn debug iketrunc" and initiate traffic from
> either side.  You can also do "debug crypto isakmp 7" and "debug
> crypto ipsec 7" and see what wrong on the Cisco pix side.

My experience is that Checkpoint's "vpn debug" output, as well as
Cisco's debug output, is extremely voluminous, and it is hard to find
the nature of the problem.  The messages that appear in the log viewer
are generally short and direct.

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