On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 13:38 -0400, Mike Mentges wrote:
> Have you setup your preshared key both in the configuration editor as 
> well as the Pre-Shared Key tab ensuring there are no white spaces or 
> differences between them? I know I had an issue with whitespace or my 
> fat finger when I set the first couple up, I setup a new key and things 
> worked. Try a simple key to test and then move to a more random key if 
> the simple key works.

I'm fond of using the pwgen utility:
http://packages.debian.org/pwgen

> I am not sure if it is needed but I allowed ESP and AH traffic on my WAN 
> rulesets to the ip's that use the tunnel, I did that during a test and 
> never removed it to fully test it.

I thought the same thing. The tunnel was still functional after removing
it.

-lee