In between the time I posted this question and nappy_d's comment, the situation turned out to be an issue involving a recursive IP address loop. My apologies, I should have closed this earlier.
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Browse All TopicsI am attempting to create a site-to-site VPN between two SonicWALL devices in my organization. One is a TZ 210, the other a TZ170. I cannot seem to get a live tunnel between the two sites. Here are the errors in our TZ 210's log when it tries to raise the tunnel:
11/04/2009 11:41:14.720 - Info - VPN IKE - IKE negotiation aborted due to timeout - XX.104.42.126, 500 - XX.244.98.165, 500 - VPN Policy: Local Site to Remote Site
11/04/2009 11:41:23.000 - Info - VPN IKE - IKE Initiator: Start Main Mode negotiation (Phase 1) - XX.104.42.126, 500 - XX.244.98.165, 500 - VPN Policy: Local Site to Remote Site
11/04/2009 11:41:23.272 - Info - VPN IKE - NAT Discovery : No NAT/NAPT device detected between IPSec Security gateways - XX.104.42.126, 500 - XX.244.98.165, 500 - VPN Policy: Local Site to Remote Site
11/04/2009 11:41:29.720 - Info - VPN IKE - IKE Initiator: Remote party timeout - Retransmitting IKE request. - XX.104.42.126, 500 - XX.244.98.165, 500 - VPN Policy: Local Site to Remote Site
11/04/2009 11:41:29.720 - Warning - VPN IKE - Received unencrypted packet in crypto active state - XX.244.98.165, 500 - XX.104.42.126, 500 - VPN Policy: Local Site to Remote Site
11/04/2009 11:41:29.720 - Info - VPN IKE - Received notify: INVALID_COOKIES - XX.104.42.126, 500 - XX.244.98.165, 500 - VPN Policy: Local Site to Remote Site
11/04/2009 11:41:39.944 - Info - VPN IKE - IKE Responder: Received Main Mode request (Phase 1) - XX.244.98.165, 500 - XX.104.42.126, 500 -
11/04/2009 11:41:40.224 - Warning - VPN IKE - IKE Responder: Proposed IKE ID mismatch - XX.244.98.165, 500 - XX.104.42.126, 500 - VPN Policy: Local Site to Remote Site; Local ID type: USER FQDN; Remote ID type: IP Address
11/04/2009 11:41:41.720 - Info - VPN IKE - IKE Initiator: Remote party timeout - Retransmitting IKE request. - XX.104.42.126, 500 - XX.244.98.165, 500 - VPN Policy: Local Site to Remote Site
11/04/2009 11:41:41.720 - Warning - VPN IKE - Received unencrypted packet in crypto active state - XX.244.98.165, 500 - XX.104.42.126, 500 - VPN Policy: Local Site to Remote Site
11/04/2009 11:41:41.720 - Info - VPN IKE - Received notify: INVALID_COOKIES - XX.104.42.126, 500 - XX.244.98.165, 500 - VPN Policy: Local Site to Remote Site
11/04/2009 11:41:57.256 - Notice - Network Access - Web management request allowed - XX.168.0.103, 4814, X0 (admin) - XX.168.103.1, 8888, X0 - TCP HTTP Management
11/04/2009 11:41:59.720 - Info - VPN IKE - IKE Initiator: Remote party timeout - Retransmitting IKE request. - XX.104.42.126, 500 - XX.244.98.165, 500 - VPN Policy: Local Site to Remote Site
11/04/2009 11:41:59.720 - Warning - VPN IKE - Received unencrypted packet in crypto active state - XX.244.98.165, 500 - XX.104.42.126, 500 - VPN Policy: Local Site to Remote Site
11/04/2009 11:41:59.720 - Info - VPN IKE - Received notify: INVALID_COOKIES - XX.104.42.126, 500 - XX.244.98.165, 500 - VPN Policy: Local Site to Remote Site
11/04/2009 11:42:33.720 - Info - VPN IKE - IKE negotiation aborted due to timeout - XX.104.42.126, 500 - XX.244.98.165, 500 - VPN Policy: Local Site to Remote Site
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by: nappy_dPosted on 2009-11-04 at 19:46:18ID: 25746592
Need the logs from the tz170 too please. Especially that is is showing the error "remote party" time out.