For the life of me, I could not get my netscreen vpn software to connect. No matter what I did to the virtual windows xp, it just would not fly. I kept receiving the following errors:
6-24: 07:18:55.296 My Connections\wvenezia@bitxbit.com – Initiating IKE Phase 1 (IP ADDR=160.79.51.201)
6-24: 07:18:56.108 My Connections\wvenezia@bitxbit.com – SENDING>>>> ISAKMP OAK AG (SA, KE, NON, ID, VID 6x)
6-24: 07:19:11.239 My Connections\wvenezia@bitxbit.com – message not received! Retransmitting!
6-24: 07:19:11.239 My Connections\wvenezia@bitxbit.com – SENDING>>>> ISAKMP OAK AG (Retransmission)
6-24: 07:19:26.261 My Connections\wvenezia@bitxbit.com – message not received! Retransmitting!
6-24: 07:19:26.261 My Connections\wvenezia@bitxbit.com – SENDING>>>> ISAKMP OAK AG (Retransmission)
6-24: 07:19:41.283 My Connections\wvenezia@bitxbit.com – message not received! Retransmitting!
6-24: 07:19:41.283 My Connections\wvenezia@bitxbit.com – SENDING>>>> ISAKMP OAK AG (Retransmission)
6-24: 07:19:56.303 My Connections\wvenezia@bitxbit.com – Exceeded 3 IKE SA negotiation attempts
I had initially thought it was due to the virtualbox blocking the IKE packets from reaching the gateway, but then decided to take virtualbox out of the picture and troubleshoot this like a normal computer. Once I did this, it only took me 10 minutes to figure out what is wrong. The message not received means that the remote host did not get the packet and the retransmission means that the remote host is not responding. Well, that would indicate that the netscreen software is sending out the packets right but the gateway is a no show. I thought, maybe I used an old Security Policy. I opened up my working laptop and compared it to the virtualbox pc, and sure enough, the gateway ip addresses are different. Once I changed this, it started working without a charm!
This makes me very happy as I am tired of carting my laptop with me to use my vpn!
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