[Swan] Problems with CentOS5/RHEL5

Nels Lindquist nlindq at maei.ca
Thu Sep 25 16:34:16 EEST 2014


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On 9/24/2014 2:17 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Nels Lindquist wrote:
> 
>> The problem arises when trying to bring up a tunnel.  Either
>> using an L2TP connection or XAUTH + RSA, the connection fails
>> with the following:
>> 
>>> Sep 23 06:28:50 yycgate pluto[14414]: read from crypto helper
>>> 0 failed with short length 2048 of 2768.  Killing helper.
> 
> Odd. Perhaps Hugh can shed some light on that?
> 
>> I tried forcing "nhelpers=1" in ipsec.conf, but it made no
>> difference.
> 
> Try nhelpers=0 instead?

That seems to have worked!

I'm getting the same routing issues for non-L2TP connections as I am
with CentOS 6, however.


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Nels Lindquist
<nlindq at maei.ca>
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