[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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