PRE-TEST moon# rm /etc/ipsec.d/cacerts/* carol# ipsec start Starting strongSwan 4.3.6 IPsec [starter]... moon# ipsec start Starting strongSwan 4.3.6 IPsec [starter]... carol# sleep 2 carol# ipsec up home 002 "home" #1: initiating Main Mode 104 "home" #1: STATE_MAIN_I1: initiate 010 "home" #1: STATE_MAIN_I1: retransmission; will wait 20s for response 010 "home" #1: STATE_MAIN_I1: retransmission; will wait 40s for response 031 "home" #1: max number of retransmissions (2) reached STATE_MAIN_I1. No response (or no acceptable response) to our first IKE message TEST carol# ipsec status | grep 'home.*STATE_QUICK_I2.*IPsec SA established' [NO] moon# cat /var/log/auth.log | grep 'peer requests PUBKEY authentication' [YES] Feb 27 23:44:24 moon pluto[26909]: | preparse_isakmp_policy: peer requests PUBKEY authentication Feb 27 23:44:34 moon pluto[26909]: | preparse_isakmp_policy: peer requests PUBKEY authentication Feb 27 23:44:54 moon pluto[26909]: | preparse_isakmp_policy: peer requests PUBKEY authentication moon# cat /var/log/auth.log | grep 'but no connection has been authorized with policy=PUBKEY' [YES] Feb 27 23:44:24 moon pluto[26909]: packet from 192.168.0.100:500: initial Main Mode message received on 192.168.0.1:500 but no connection has been authorized with policy=PUBKEY Feb 27 23:44:34 moon pluto[26909]: packet from 192.168.0.100:500: initial Main Mode message received on 192.168.0.1:500 but no connection has been authorized with policy=PUBKEY Feb 27 23:44:54 moon pluto[26909]: packet from 192.168.0.100:500: initial Main Mode message received on 192.168.0.1:500 but no connection has been authorized with policy=PUBKEY moon# ipsec status | grep '*192.168.0.100 STATE_QUICK_R2.*IPsec SA established' [NO] POST-TEST moon# ipsec stop Stopping strongSwan IPsec... carol# ipsec stop Stopping strongSwan IPsec...