[vpn-help] Problem with the Shrew Soft VPN ike daemon

[Donald Woeltje]

I've been using the Shrew Soft VPN client for serveral years now.....but on Windows, and it has worked great. But now I'm trying to get it to work on Linux and I cannot get it to work.

Compilation seemed to work correctly, as I didn't notice any errors in the output (there were errors initially because I was missing some dependencies that weren't listed in the instructions; so I'd find out what package the missing dependency was in, install that package, and then rerun cmake - on the third try cmake ran without errors and then I ran make and make install and those ran without errors).

The problem is, when I run iked (and yes, I am running it as root) it runs, appears to start up without problems (no errors in the on-screen output), and then it just quits running (without generating any output as to why). The first time I tried it, I didn't know it had quit running, so I started up qikea, created the session config file, and tried to make a VPN connection to my firewall and as soon as I clicked the Connect button, it said that it could connect to the key server. So I ran a ps aux | grep iked and the only thing returned was an entry for the grep command. Then I did a ps -e and item by item checked the output. No iked. So, every time I run iked, it shuts down right away. It doesn't keep running as a daemon.

 
Donald Woeltje
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