Hello all,

I'm trying to install IPSec on my computer, and am not exactly sure where I am going wrong.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...host2host.html

That webpage is what I am trying to step through to set up a connection.

Everything looks the exact same up to the racoon.conf file.

Then when I try to use ifup ipsec0, the connection fails to be made.

The first time I tried it, it told me missing ifcfg-ifcfg file, so I created ifcfg-ifcfg-ipsec0 instead of ifcfg-ipsec0, and now it tells me nothing, except prints out the usage of the command like I am doing something wrong.

Specifically, it gives me

Usage: grep [OPTION]...PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.
Usage: grep [OPTION]...PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.
ethtool version 1.8
Usage:
ethtool DEVNAME
ethtool -a DEVNAME
ethtool -A DEVNAME\
[autoneg on|off ]\

.....

ethtool -S DEVNAME



if anyone has any input on this problem, I would be very grateful

Thanks in advance

Eagle

well as the docs say there, it's /.../ifcfg-ipsec0 tha you need. if that's there, then maybe you have a syntax issue in the file, which is managing to break the script in two and giving those grep errors. can we see it?

All I dd, while trying IPSec out is copy and paste it directly from the webpage. I am going to end up changing values, etc. afterwards

Any other ideas?

Although, I've kinda given up on that and am concentrating on just going at what I really have to do - which is connect a Linux computer and a Windows 2000 computer by IPSec. Which I am also having trouble with, but I think I understand where I may be going wrong - you may see a topic soon about that, though.

Eagle

Windows 2000 Professional
Linux Redhat Release 3, Kernel 2.4.12

The computers are "negotiating ip security", but they don't connect.

One reason where I think it might be faulting is on the redhat there is an authentication key and an encryption key, while on Windows I am only using one key.

Any tips?

Eagle

anything?