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Re: [Users] Freeswan works but some annoyances

From: Adrian Blockus (ablockus_at_gmx.net)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 11:34:39 CEST


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: "René Gallati" <CAPSsecurityFOR_at_SPAMMERSdraxinusom.ch.freeswan.org>
An: <users_at_lists.freeswan.org>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. Juli 2002 19:25
Betreff: [Users] Freeswan works but some annoyances

[snip]

> in /etc/ipsec.conf (on both sides!) Today for example, the other party
> meddled around with their system, tearing the connections down and
building
> them up anew. Of course they don't get deleted on my side since FreeSWAN
> ignores the "Delete SA" message but they still linger around. Eventually
> they time out. This wouldn't be so bad if it wouldn't compromise security
> however. I could observe (with Ethereal) that after that happend, I
suddenly
> had "half-open" tunnels around. The other side had its tunnel closed and
> sent me a ping in cleartext while my system replied using an ESP packet.
The
> encrypted packet could not be associated with the data stream and got
> discarded on the remote side with the result that I was unable to initiate
> any connection of any kind to the remote side. Until I torn the connection
> down on my end and built it up again.
[snip]

Did you patch your version of freeswan with the notification/delete-patch
from
Mathieu Lafon. There is a new version available for freeswan1.98b since
yesterday.

http://open-source.arkoon.net/freeswan/notify_delete-freeswan-1.98b-020724.d
iff.gz

It works great...

Regards, Adrian

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