Re: [strongSwan] [strongswan]IPSEC Null Encryption

2009-12-30 Thread ashish mahalka
Hello Andreas, I am using strongswan 4.3.4 so I think the fix that you are talking about must be there. But it seems that there is something else that needs to be done on 2.6.24 kernel to make ESP Null Encryption work. Are you aware of any patch on linux kernel ? Thanks Ashish On Thu, Dec 31, 20

Re: [strongSwan] [strongswan]IPSEC Null Encryption

2009-12-30 Thread Andreas Steffen
Hi Ashish, Both the strongSwan IKEv1 and IKEv2 daemons support ESP Null encryption: http://www.strongswan.org/uml/testresults43/ikev1/esp-alg-null/ http://www.strongswan.org/uml/testresults43/ikev2/esp-alg-null/ Due to a keymat.c refactoring the configuration of ESP Null encryption was broke

Re: [strongSwan] feature request: Give a hint if --enable-eap-mschapv2 is not set

2009-12-30 Thread Andreas Steffen
Hello Daniel, there are several difficulties: - First, ipsec starter doesn't know anything about charon's loaded plugins. Therefore we cannot do any checks during the parsing of ipsec.conf. - Second, an EAP client doesn't know which EAP method will be applied before receiving this informat

Re: [strongSwan] DNS resolution - revisisted

2009-12-30 Thread Andreas Steffen
Hello Daniel, Daniel Mentz wrote: > Andreas Steffen wrote in his e-mail on dec 24: > > ".the IKEv2 charon daemon receives the FQDN as a > string via the stroke interface and does name resolution on the fly > shortly before actually negotiating the IPsec tunnel." > > This appears not to work

[strongSwan] having difficulties with "ipsec pki --gen"

2009-12-30 Thread Frank Wilson
I am using strongswan 4.3.5. Whenever I run "ipsec pki --gen" it just hangs. Are there any known issues with this? Any work around? I had a play with the souce code, adding in debug logging. It seems to get stuck in the following function in library/credentials/credential_factory.c: static void* c

[strongSwan] [strongswan]IPSEC Null Encryption

2009-12-30 Thread ashish mahalka
Hello Andreas, I am trying to establish a Null Encryption between two peers. I am using a 2.6.24 kernel and the Null Algorithm option was not enable in kernel configuration. I did enable that by CONFIG_CRYPTO_NULL=y and rebuild the kernel. But still strongswan reported the error "IPSEC SA empty pr

Re: [strongSwan] Several TS on a same connection

2009-12-30 Thread Daniel Mentz
Andreas Schuldei wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Andreas Schuldei > wrote: >> Daniel, thank you VERY much! >> >> when would be a good time to run those commands? are there hooks in >> strongswan to call a script containing those commands? or are there >> scripts on the system already wh

[strongSwan] feature request: Give a hint if --enable-eap-mschapv2 is not set

2009-12-30 Thread Daniel Mentz
I tried to setup a strongSwan as a gateway for Windows 7 (MSCHAPv2). But it did not work. After some time of troubleshooting, it turned out that I failed to include the following parameters when running ./configure --enable-eap-mschapv2 --enable-md4 The log file of strongSwan wasn't very helpfu

Re: [strongSwan] ipsec performance

2009-12-30 Thread Andreas Schuldei
according to this http://lwn.net/Articles/269327/ amd64 is fastest for aes128. so that would explain why we see a performance decrease with blowfish. On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126155699817914&w=2 > > but i dont understand what

[strongSwan] DNS resolution - revisisted

2009-12-30 Thread Daniel Mentz
Andreas Steffen wrote in his e-mail on dec 24: ".the IKEv2 charon daemon receives the FQDN as a string via the stroke interface and does name resolution on the fly shortly before actually negotiating the IPsec tunnel." This appears not to work for me. The output of starter is as follows: Sta

Re: [strongSwan] StrongSwan 4.2.4 with Windows 7

2009-12-30 Thread Wihsböck Michael
Hi Daniel, thank you for your help. After switching to the newest strongswan release it works great. Kind regards, Michael -Original Message- From: Daniel Mentz [mailto:danielml+mailinglists.strongs...@sent.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 1:15 PM To: Wihsböck Michael Cc: users@li