On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:25:03 -0400, Dana Spiegel
<dana at sociabledesign dot com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting a site to site vpn up and running. I've
> followed the instructions in the m0n0wall documentation for configuring
> the vpn, but I keep getting the following error on my soekris box error log:
> 
> racoon: ERROR: isakmp.c:861:isakmp_ph1begin_r(): couldn't find
> configuration.
> 
> My setup is a soekris box on a cable modem (Time warner cable in the US)
> connecting to a generic PC (cd-rom based m0n0wall) on a symmetric
> 1.5mbps DSL line.
> 
> Here are the two racoon.conf files:
> 
> Generic PC CD-ROM
> -----------------------------
> 
> path pre_shared_key "/var/etc/psk.txt";
> 
> remote 68.174.123.110 {
>         exchange_mode aggressive;
>         my_identifier address "216.220.101.74";
>         peers_identifier address 68.174.123.110;
> 
> Soekris
> ------------
> 
> remote 216.220.96.17 {
>         exchange_mode aggressive;
>         my_identifier address "68.174.123.110";
>         peers_identifier address 216.220.96.17;


Note your my_identifier on the PC and peers_identifier on Soekris
don't match up.  That seems to be it.

-Chris