[vpn-help] Problem establishing tunnel using Fedora 6: resend limit exceeded for phase1 exchange

[kevin shrew-vpn]

On Wed, 19 May 2010 19:59:00 -0500
Rob Ratcliff <rratcliff at ticom-geo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I never heard back from anyone on my issues with Fedora 6, so, just
> so I know if its possible or not, has anybody been able to get the
> Shrewsoft VPN client to work with Fedora 6 or RHEL 5 (which I believe
> started with Fedora 6 as a baseline)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rob
> 
> Robert Ratcliff wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having troubles connecting to my company's VPN on Fedora 6.
> > Others have connected with ikea on Fedora 7 and Ubuntu so I know it
> > is possible so there is some system specific configuration problem
> > on my side that is preventing a successful connection. (Another
> > colleague is having trouble with Fedora 12 as well.)
> >
> > I'm stumped right now, so any help would be appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > p.s. Shrewsoft guys - I would be willing to pay for support, but I
> > didn't see any way to setup an  account on-line to get a userid and
> > password.
> >
> > --------------------------------------------System info and iked.log
> > output---------------------------------------
> >
> > I'm using the latest beta build (I tried the production release as
> > well).
> >
> > I'm using Fedora 6 with this kernel:
> > Linux  2.6.22.14-72.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Nov 21 15:12:59 EST 2007 i686
> > i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >
> >   
> 
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Hi Rob, I'm just talking out of my behind here, since I've never even
attempted to run Shrew on any Linux flavor, but for a while
there Fedora had a preference for strange compilers and runtime
environments (like gcj instead of Sun Java and some broken version of
Ant).  Perhaps they've done something to openssl (or some other Shrew
dependent package) in Fedora 6? You could try manually installing a
standard version of openssl and pointing Shrew at it.

Something else that would be useful would be some logs if you have any.