Debian – ipsec strongswan debian LXC : received NO_PROPOSAL_CHOSEN notify error

debianipsecstrongswan

I'm trying to setup a IPSec tunnel between two LXC Debian Jessie on the same physical server (Debian as well). Here is my network topology :

172.17.23.0/24 —- 172.17.23.100 – VPN1 – 10.73.52.1 ==== 10.73.53.2 – VPN2 – 192.168.100.100 —- 192.168.100.0/24

The configuration on VPN1 and VPN2 is the same, I'm authenticating with Pre-Shared-Key :

/etc/ipsec.conf
config setup
charondebug="all"
uniqueids=yes

conn %default

conn testconn
  left=10.73.53.1
  leftsubnet=172.17.23.0/24
  right=10.73.53.2
  rightsubnet=192.168.100.0/24
  ike=aes128-sha1-modp1024
  esp=aes128-sha1
  keyingtries=0
  ikelifetime=60m
  auto=start
  closeaction=restart
  keylife=20m
  rekeymargin=3m
  keyexchange=ike
  mobike=no
  authby=secret
  type=tunnel

/etc/ipsec.secrets
10.73.53.1 10.73.53.2 : PSK "PasswordHere"

I startup both sides ipsec start and up text connection ipsec up

root@vpn1:~# ipsec up testconn
initiating IKE_SA testconn[3] to 10.73.53.2
generating IKE_SA_INIT request 0 [ SA KE No N(NATD_S_IP) N(NATD_D_IP) ]
sending packet: from 10.73.53.1[500] to 10.73.53.2[500] (304 bytes)
received packet: from 10.73.53.2[500] to 10.73.53.1[500] (36 bytes)
parsed IKE_SA_INIT response 0 [ N(NO_PROP) ]
received NO_PROPOSAL_CHOSEN notify error
establishing connection 'testconn' failed
Idem pour vpn2.

I got similar messages in syslog.

I don't understand why I get this NO_PROPOSAL_CHOSEN, as I'm trying to force the choice of algorithms to be used in the /etc/ipsec.conf file !

Many thanks for your help, don't hesitate to ask for more informations.

EDIT : Here is extract from /var/log/syslog from VPN2 (receiving connection) :

vpn2 charon: 07[NET] sending packet: from 10.73.53.2[500] to 10.73.53.1[500] (940 bytes)
vpn2 charon: 09[NET] received packet: from 10.73.53.1[500] to 10.73.53.2[500] (36 bytes)
vpn2 charon: 09[ENC] parsed IKE_SA_INIT response 0 [ N(NO_PROP) ]
vpn2 charon: 09[IKE] received NO_PROPOSAL_CHOSEN notify error
vpn2 charon: 10[NET] received packet: from 10.73.53.254[500] to 10.73.53.2[500] (940 bytes)
vpn2 charon: 10[ENC] parsed IKE_SA_INIT request 0 [ SA KE No N(NATD_S_IP) N(NATD_D_IP) ]
vpn2 charon: 10[IKE] no IKE config found for 10.73.53.2...10.73.53.254, sending NO_PROPOSAL_CHOSEN

I got this no IKE config found, googling does not help much :/

EDIT2 : Here is the output of ipsec statusall :

root@vpn1:~# ipsec statusall
Status of IKE charon daemon (strongSwan 5.2.1, Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64, x86_64):
  uptime: 46 minutes, since Dec 15 14:56:02 2017
  malloc: sbrk 2408448, mmap 0, used 310128, free 2098320
  worker threads: 11 of 16 idle, 5/0/0/0 working, job queue: 0/0/0/0, scheduled: 0
  loaded plugins: charon aes rc2 sha1 sha2 md5 random nonce x509 revocation constraints pubkey pkcs1 pkcs7 pkcs8 pkcs12 pgp dnskey sshkey pem openssl fips-prf gmp agent xcbc hmac gcm attr kernel-netlink resolve socket-default stroke updown
Listening IP addresses:
  172.17.23.10
  10.73.53.1
Connections:
    test:  10.73.53.1...10.73.53.2  IKEv1/2
    test:   local:  [10.73.53.1] uses pre-shared key authentication
    test:   remote: [10.73.53.2] uses pre-shared key authentication
    test:   child:  172.17.23.0/24 === 192.168.100.0/24 TUNNEL
Security Associations (0 up, 0 connecting):
  none
root@vpn1:~# 

I have exactly the same on server VPN2 (except 172.17.23.0/24 is changed for 192.168.100.0/24, which is local subnet on VPN2 side).

Best Answer

It's not matching the connection attempt to a configuration on your strongswan server.

What's the output if you run 'ipsec statusall'? The command may be 'strongswan statusall' - seems to differ per distro, that'll show what configurations you have loaded