Dear Colleagues, There was a power outage, the Mikrotik router at home was powered off for several hours. Then it was powered on again but there was no IPSec SA from work (Strongswan) to home (Mikrotik).
I had to run "ipsec up home" at work to make things work again. Why did the SA not start automatically when the Mikrotik became available again? This is the relevant Strongswan config (yes the Strongswan at work is behind NAT). conn home auto=start authby=secret dpddelay=10s dpdaction=restart esp=aes256-sha1-modp2048 ike=aes256-sha1-modp2048 ikelifetime=1h lifetime=10m keyexchange=ikev2 type=transport left=10.10.10.5 right=y.y.y.y leftprotoport=47 rightprotoport=47 -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/