Colleagues, hi,
as always, the most magic things happens with those, who claims the best
security solutions in the Universe :-\
Faced a very strange behaviour when using IPSec between Strongswan
(server) and Cisco (client). On Cisco I'm using the tunnel configuration:
interface Tunnel1
ip address negotiated
ip mtu 1400
ip tcp adjust-mss 1360
tunnel source GigabitEthernet1
tunnel mode ipsec ipv4
tunnel destination y.y.y.y
tunnel protection ipsec profile NEW-tun
and things are ok to some degree: when I shutting down the tunnel, Cisco
IOS clears all states inside (both ike sa and ike session), while
sending to the peer only request to close Child SA:
Jun 11 21:48:58 newton charon-systemd[3040]: received DELETE for ESP
CHILD_SA with SPI fb709251
causing Strongswan to delete Child SA but to keep IKE SA active:
root@newton:/etc/strongswan.d# swanctl --list-sas
ikev2-eap-mschapv2: #1, ESTABLISHED, IKEv2, 865999d54ba73a0c_i
63a1831a36835a29_r*
local 'newton.sq' @ y.y.y.y[4500]
remote '192.168.1.161' @ x.x.x.x[4500] EAP: 'doka...@gmail.com'
[172.29.24.2]
AES_GCM_16-256/PRF_HMAC_SHA2_256/MODP_2048
established 246s ago, rekeying in 10188s
active: IKE_DPD
I'm using Radius to authenticate users and manage simultaneous use of
sessions with same id. Thus, the problem with this issue is that
Strongswan don't send Accounting-Stop record until DPD will find it
finally closed and during this period connection looks as active,
preventing reconnection.
Even after I reduced dpd_delay to 10s, full cleanup happens in about 3
minutes after Child SA was closed:
21:48:58 newton: 09[IKE] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> received DELETE for
ESP CHILD_SA with SPI fb709251
21:48:58 newton: 09[IKE] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> closing CHILD_SA
carlo{1} with SPIs cfd87900_i [...]
21:48:58 newton: 09[IKE] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> sending DELETE for ESP
CHILD_SA with SPI cfd87900
21:48:58 newton: 09[CHD] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> CHILD_SA carlo{1}
state change: INSTALLED => DELETING
21:48:58 newton: 09[IKE] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> CHILD_SA closed
21:48:58 newton: 09[CHD] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> CHILD_SA carlo{1}
state change: DELETING => DESTROYING
21:49:22 newton: 16[IKE] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> sending DPD request
21:49:22 newton: 16[IKE] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> queueing IKE_DPD task
21:49:22 newton: 16[IKE] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> activating IKE_DPD task
21:49:26 newton: 05[IKE] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> retransmit 1 of
request with message ID 8
21:49:34 newton: 09[IKE] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> retransmit 2 of
request with message ID 8
21:49:47 newton: 12[IKE] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> retransmit 3 of
request with message ID 8
21:50:10 newton: 05[IKE] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> retransmit 4 of
request with message ID 8
21:50:52 newton: 07[IKE] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> retransmit 5 of
request with message ID 8
21:52:07 newton: 06[IKE] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> giving up after 5
retransmits
21:52:07 newton: 06[CFG] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> sending RADIUS
Accounting-Request to server '127.0.0.1'
21:52:08 newton: 06[CFG] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> received RADIUS
Accounting-Response from server '127.0.0.1'
21:52:08 newton: 06[IKE] <ikev2-eap-mschapv2|1> IKE_SA
ikev2-eap-mschapv2[1] state change: ESTABLISHED => DESTROYING
So, the question is: are there ways to be more aggressive in detecting
closed connections, e.g. :
- is it possible to destroy IKE SA if there are no Child SAs anymore?
- or, may be, change parameters of DPD messages retransmission? - qty of
messages, fixed delay between messages, smth else?
Any other ways to work around this problem?
Thank you.
--
Volodymyr Litovka
"Vision without Execution is Hallucination." -- Thomas Edison
