On 3/13/06, Polus, Tomasz <tomek at polvision dot com dot pl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My home computer is located behind m0n0wall, which is connected
> directly to Internet (public IP).
> At work, I have a Linksys RV042 router, which is also connected
> directly to Internet (public IP).
>
> During last couple months, I've been using Linksys QuickVPN software
> to establish VPN connection from home computer to Linksys router at
> work.
> EVERYTHING was working great. Until I changed Linux based firewall
> into m0n0wall. Same hardware, new software :) Nothing else was changed
> - just switching to m0n0wall.
>
> I prefer m0n0wall, because it has many great features, it's easy to
> use, small, fast and it boots from CD. However, this simple VPN
> problem is driving me nuts....
>
> I've been doing some reasearch (logs, sniffers) and it looks like
> m0n0wall is blocking returning UDP 500 packets, so IKE negotiation
> (main mode) is not successful. I found similar problems here in
> mailing list archive, but no final answer.
> Tried enabling IPSEC on m0n0wall. Tried passing through ESP (IP50), AH
> (IP51), UDP 500, 4500 at m0n0wall firewall. Tried to forward UDP
> 500,4500 from m0n0wall directly to my home computer. Nothing worked.
> Finally I tried putting a "pass all traffic in both directions" rule
> to make sure nothing is blocked. And it still doesn't work!
>
> In my sniffer, I can see that UDP 500 packets go out but no packets
> are coming back, while on previous Linux router everything was OK.
>
> Currently my m0n0wall firewall/NAT configuration is the same as
> default. I suppose this VPN connection should be working like charm,
> so what's going on?
> Please help... Thank you.
>
> --
> Tomasz Polus
>


ipsec from a NATted machine would be the problem, m0n0 does not support it.

how about using your m0n0 to setup the vpn tunnel, as opposed to using the PC?

sai