[Swan] Decoding IPSEC_RESPONDER_LIFETIME
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed May 20 18:30:11 EEST 2015
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 05:20:04PM +0200, heiko.helmle at horiba.com wrote:
> > So from my head, probably completely wrong type of before coffee
> > calculation, that could be lifetime in seconds (00 00 00 01) for
> > 1c00 seconds, aka 7168 seconds, prob 7200 (2h) when it started?
>
> Well the message comes in during the initial Phase 1 - so it might be that
> Cisco defaults to something like 7168 seconds?
> Peer admin configured 28800s on the GUI, but I couldn't find out what
> phase.
>
> well... what phase is IPSEC_RESPONDER_LIFETIME related to? ikelifetime or
> salifetime?
>
> I experimented and reduced both to 1800s. That at least takes the pressure
> from me babysitting the connection - but still the peer seems to throw the
> phase 1 away and Libreswan doesn't seem to notice, resulting in a broken
> tunnel...
>
> 000 State list:
> 000
> 000 #54: "remote":4500 STATE_MAIN_I4 (ISAKMP SA established);
> EVENT_SA_EXPIRE in 144s; lastdpd=938s(seq in:0 out:0); idle; import:local
> rekey
> 000 #63: "remote":4500 STATE_QUICK_I1 (sent QI1, expecting QR1);
> EVENT_v1_RETRANSMIT in 6s; lastdpd=-1s(seq in:0 out:0); idle; import:local
> rekey
> 000 #61: "remote":4500 STATE_MAIN_I4 (ISAKMP SA established);
> EVENT_SA_REPLACE in 57s; newest ISAKMP; lastdpd=300s(seq in:0 out:0);
> idle; import:local rekey
>
> with a dpdtimeout of 120 - shouldn't Libreswan have thrown away those (#54
> and #61)? Or does DPD only work on Phase 2?
>
>
> > ps. pet peeve: It is "Libreswan" or "libreswan", not "LibreSWAN" -
> > SWAN is a trademark of RSA Inc.
>
> I'll try to remember that :)
http://www.freeswan.org/credits.html says it is S/WAN not SWAN that is
trademark by RSA.
--
Len Sorensen
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