On Monday 13 December 2004 03:36 pm, Florin wrote:
> Chris Scheidecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > First off, I'd like to say that the new MNF looks awesome!  Cheers to
> > Florin and everyone else who's pitched in for this project.  A lot of the
> > new features really polish an already excellent product, and I'm looking
> > forward to using it more and more.
> >
> > Testing out MNF2beta2, I've encountered some issues/bugs:
> >
> > under VPN:
> > -Under CA, Other Certs: Certificate creation doesn't seem to work
> > proplerly.
> >
> > >From the web interface, it seems like it lets me create a certificate
> > > without
> >
> > an email address, but then I can't find it anywhere (when logged into the
> > machine directly, under /etc/freeswan/ipsec.d/certs/) .  I can't then add
> > an email address and have it create/re-create the certificate.  Creating
> > a certificate with the email address filled in correctly from the start
> > doesn't seem to work all the time (didn't appear at first, but after
> > correcting some info in the CA cert area & re-creating the ca cert, other
> > certs then were created properly).
>
> one needs and email address for the certificates creation ...

No, you don't need an email address to create a certificate; we're doing it 
right now manually on MNF1.  All safenet-based vpn clients (which includes 
Netscreen-Remote and Sonicwall) require a certificate that does not have an 
email address.

>
> > -Under FreeS/WAN: Setting up vpn connections, %any isn't a valid entry
> > for 'IP'.  0.0.0.0 seems to be acceptable, but I'm not certain that is
> > the same thing.
> >
> > -Under FreeS/WAN: Setting up vpn connections, entering 192.168.100.0/24
> > in the 'Subnet/Netmask' feild comes up as 'invalid ip address' in the
> > interface, but it is, in fact, what I want in my ipsec.conf file. 
> > 192.168.100.0 is accepted, but is then directly put into the .conf
> > file--not correct, and it won't work.  (in this case, 192.168.100.0/24 is
> > LAN network for this firewall).
>
> for these two last questions this has been already answered on this list.
> The invalid message warning is precisely a warning ... not necessarily an
> error ... so you can insist and go with these chosen values ... if you
> know what you're doing ...

The field is labeled correctly: 'Subnet/Netmask' --you need to specify a 
subnet AND a netmask in that format in order to work properly, so why would 
it warn you otherwise?

-chris

>
> my 2cts,

-- 
Chris Scheidecker
Associate Systems Administrator
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