[vpn-help] connect to befsx41

Bill Wallick wwwallick at acornpetroleuminc.com
Thu Mar 15 10:00:51 CDT 2012


>From further investigation I believe that what is happening is that the
Linksys is expecting to see the shared key,,, but it does not send out the
shared key... However the client software is expecting to both send and
receive the shared key, and doesn't seem to have an option to allow this to
be only one way.

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Subject: Re: [vpn-help] connect to befsx41


On 03/14/2012 04:34 PM, Bill Wallick wrote:
> I am getting an "invalid hash size". can anyone shed some light on this
???
> here is the log.
>
> 12/03/14 12:14:45<<  : security association payload
> 12/03/14 12:14:45<<  : - propsal #1 payload
> 12/03/14 12:14:45<<  : -- transform #1 payload
> 12/03/14 12:14:45 ii : matched isakmp proposal #1 transform #1
> 12/03/14 12:14:45 ii : - transform    = ike
> 12/03/14 12:14:45 ii : - cipher type  = 3des
> 12/03/14 12:14:45 ii : - key length   = default
> 12/03/14 12:14:45 ii : - hash type    = md5
> 12/03/14 12:14:45 ii : - dh group     = modp-1024
> 12/03/14 12:14:45 ii : - auth type    = psk
> 12/03/14 12:14:45 ii : - life seconds = 3600
> 12/03/14 12:14:45 ii : - life kbytes  = 0
> 12/03/14 12:14:45<<  : key exchange payload
> 12/03/14 12:14:45<<  : nonce payload
> 12/03/14 12:14:45<<  : identification payload
> 12/03/14 12:14:45 ii : phase1 id target is any
> 12/03/14 12:14:45 ii : phase1 id match
> 12/03/14 12:14:45 ii : received = ipv4-host 192.168.0.10
> 12/03/14 12:14:45<<  : hash payload
> 12/03/14 12:14:45 !! : invalid hash size ( 0 != 16 )
>

Hi Bill,

I'm not sure what is causing this message.  My guess would be that there
is still something mismatched in the settings.  Perhaps the BEFSX41 uses
SHA1 Hash Algorithm instead of MD5.

Another possibility is that Shrew is expecting one kind of message from
the Linksys (identification payload) but the VPN gateway is sending
something different.

For example, maybe it does not recognize the Shrew client because the
Authentication->Local Identity in Shrew do not match what is configured
in the BEFSX41 for the remote site/client.

So while Shrew is waiting for the next packet in the connect sequence,
the BEFSX41 is sending back an "unrecognized peer" message.

Can you look on the Cisco/Linksys box to see what its logs say?
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