I am a newbie to Freeswan setup.
I have been trying to setup a VPN connection between two hosts on the same subnet .I had done the following
1) Install the Freeswan2.00 after patching it with respective X509 patch.
2) Copied the RSA public keys from ipsec.secrets to repective ipsec.conf on the hosts.
3) ipsec.conf
version 2.0
config setup
interfaces=%defaultroute
klipsdebug=all
plutodebug=all
plutoload=%search
plutostart=%search
conn %default
keyingtries=0
keylife=2h
conn left-right
left=192.168.9.53
leftnexthop=
right=192.168.9.87
rightnexthop=
auto=start
auth=ah
authby=rsasig
leftrsasigkey=0sAQOHj .........
rightrsasigkey=0sAQNXEVwz...............
3)copied the same ipsec.conf on both the hosts.
4)Execute "service ipsec start"
----- ERROR .... unknown parameter "plutoload".....
So I had commented the "plutoload=%search" "plutostart=%search" in ipsec.conf.' and continued.
5)"ipsec auto --add left-right" (on both the hosts)
6)"ipsec auto --up left-right" on one host
------ERROR: Possible authentication failure: no acceptable response to our first encrypted........
Queries:-
a) Can you tell me where we had gone wrong for the above host to host connection on same subnet ??
b) Can you tell me how to check whether VPN connection is correctly set ??
c) I am not able to ping between these two hosts the moment "ipsec0" device is created...???,.....
It would be great if anyone can help me in solving this asap.
Thanks and regards
Vijay