Dear Colleagues, What's the reason for strongSwan to create (sometimes) multiple SAs for a single peer? Please see the example below where the "officeru3" peer looks fine to me while the "officeru4" peer has an extraneous SA.
root@tunn:~# ipsec status | grep officeru3 officeru3{2}: ROUTED, TRANSPORT, reqid 2 officeru3{2}: x.x.x.x/32[gre] === y.y.y.y/32[gre] officeru3[27]: ESTABLISHED 108 minutes ago, x.x.x.x[x.x.x.x]...y.y.y.y[y.y.y.y] officeru3{83}: INSTALLED, TRANSPORT, reqid 2, ESP in UDP SPIs: c1f542b3_i 0e4df460_o officeru3{83}: x.x.x.x/32[gre] === y.y.y.y/32[gre] root@tunn:~# root@tunn:~# ipsec status | grep officeru4 officeru4{3}: ROUTED, TRANSPORT, reqid 3 officeru4{3}: x.x.x.x/32[gre] === z.z.z.z/32[gre] officeru4[30]: ESTABLISHED 60 minutes ago, x.x.x.x[x.x.x.x]...z.z.z.z[z.z.z.z] officeru4{82}: INSTALLED, TRANSPORT, reqid 3, ESP in UDP SPIs: c50d4bb3_i 0f33c281_o officeru4{82}: x.x.x.x/32[gre] === z.z.z.z/32[gre] officeru4[28]: ESTABLISHED 106 minutes ago, x.x.x.x[x.x.x.x]...z.z.z.z[z.z.z.z] officeru4{84}: INSTALLED, TRANSPORT, reqid 3, ESP in UDP SPIs: c02ebd2f_i 0a5e786d_o officeru4{84}: x.x.x.x/32[gre] === z.z.z.z/32[gre] root@tunn:~# -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/