[Vpn-help] Compiled Shrew 2.1.5 beta for Ubuntu 8.10 and Netgear DG834G

Matthew Grooms mgrooms at shrew.net
Wed May 13 00:51:54 CDT 2009


shrew.nelipot at spamgourmet.com wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> I thought I'd give installation another shot after first uninstalling 
> Shrew 2.10 in Synaptic.  Installation seemed to go just fine.  After 
> installation of my custom built DEB file I got some odd behaviour.  
> Firstly, there is no menu item for the Shrew VPN client, but that's 
> minor.  So I started iked, after reading the README file, although I 
> wasn't really sure that I needed to do that, in a terminal window and 
> that seemed to go okay.  Then I started ikea in the same window, which 
> opened the familiar Shrew Soft VPN Client.  I created a new profile, 
> which seemed to work well as there were many more configurable items.  
> Under the Authentication tab for local host I found many different 
> Identification types that weren't there on the older version, such as 
> Fully Qualified Domain Name, Key Identifier and User Fully Qualified 
> Domain Name.  The same was true for Remote Identity which has ASN. 1 
> Distinguished Name in addition.
> 
> I entered all the necessary data and saved it.  Then I double clicked 
> the profile I wanted to use (the new one I just created) to connect and 
> it opened up ikec, I believe it is called.  When I hit the Connect 
> button I got the message 'failed to attach to key daemon....' and 
> nothing more happens.  There is no log entried recorded in the VPN 
> server log either.  If I try to go back in and change settings of the 
> new profile the new Identification types previously available all seem 
> to have disappeared and I am left with just the old IP address field 
> under the previous version of Shrew that I had installed.  It's almost 
> as if I have a mixture of the two versions running.  Sort of like when 
> the human and the fly get mixed up in the time machine!
> 
> Seems to me that something went wrong with the install process.  Any 
> suggestions?
> 

The iked process needs to be running in the background. The client gui 
apps connect to iked.

-Matthew



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