[CentOS] IPSec multiple VPN setups

Mike - st257
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:23:55 -0000

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Mike - st257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I second Eero's comment, use a new IPSec daemon.
>
> Openswan was forked and became Libreswan. Paul, now a RH employee, was a
> main developer for the Openswan project before he and others created the
> Libreswan fork.
> https://libreswan.org/
>
> EL6 has Openswan
> EL7 has Libreswan
>
> Racoon isn't all that fun to work with.
> If you have the option, ditch it and EL5 and move to a newer platform
> (preferably EL7 with Libreswan).
>

There's an RPM spec file (though I've not used it) for building Openswan
for EL5.
https://github.com/xelerance/Openswan/tree/master/packaging/centos5

Additionally, here's some info but I advise against the Racoon IPSec daemon.
https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Deployment_Guide/sec-racoon-conf.html
https://wiki.debian.org/IPsec


>
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at
iki.fi>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes you can. Please use newer version of centos and strong/openswan.
>>
>> Eero
>> 21.3.2016 7.05 ip. "Glenn Pierce" <glennpierce at
gmail.com> kirjoitti:
>>
>> > Hi I hope someone can answer something I'm sure is quite
basic.
>> >
>> > I am following the instructions at
>> >
https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-vpn.html
>> > On setting up a VPN
>> >
>> > The part I am having trouble with is when it show the
>> > /etc/racoon/racoon.conf file.
>> > But it doesn't say whay you have to do with this file.
>> >
>> > When I bring up my connection
>> >
>> > ifup bicester
>> >
>> > I get
>> > RTNETLINK answers: No such device
>> >
>> > looking at /var/messages I see
>> >
>> > ERROR: failed to bind to address 127.0.0.1[500] (Address already
in
>> use).
>> > Mar 21 17:01:05  racoon: ERROR: failed to bind to address
*.*.*.*[500]
>> > (Address already in use).
>> > Mar 21 17:01:05  racoon: ERROR: failed to bind to address
*.*.*.*[500]
>> > (Address already in use).
>> > Mar 21 17:01:05  racoon: ERROR: failed to bind to address
*.*.*.*[500]
>> > (Address already in use).
>> > Mar 21 17:01:05  racoon: ERROR: failed to bind to address ::1[500]
>> > (Address already in use).
>> > Mar 21 17:01:05  racoon: INFO: fe80::bcef:4fff:fe66:82ec%eth0[500]
>> > used as isakmp port (fd=25)
>> >
>> > There was an existing setup done long ago.
>> >
>> > How can I setup more than one vpn connection (manually as this is
a
>> > headless server)
>> > or is that not possible ?
>> >
>> > Thanks for any pointers
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