R: [VPN] vpn problem cisco & watchguard

Filippo Carzaniga filippo.carzaniga at query.it
Thu Jan 22 08:10:03 EST 2004


I had the same problem.
It's very strange. You can to trasfert the ipsec tunnell over TCP. diseable the NAT-T over the devices.


-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Jean-Francois Dive [mailto:jef at linuxbe.org]
Inviato: mercoledì 21 gennaio 2004 9.24
A: Navratil Pavel
Cc: vpn at lists.shmoo.com
Oggetto: Re: [VPN] vpn problem cisco & watchguard


The key point is to know if what the cisco dump is true or not. Can you
pinpoint the traffic/condition that trigger this problem ? If you do, a
sniffer trace would be very usefull as well as full enabled debug on the
cisco side.

J.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:25:32PM +0100, Navratil Pavel wrote:
> You posted this question in VPN mail list:
> --------------------------------------
> > I have a problem with a cisco router ed Watchguard firewall.
> > Sometime the tunnel ipsec dropped.
> > the logs on the router is that:
> > %CRYPTO-4-IKMP_PKT_OVERFLOW : ISAKMP message from [IP_address] larger
> ([dec]) than the UDP packet length ([dec]) 
> > Explanation ISAKMP messages are carried in UDP packets and have their
> own message length field. The message length field of this message was
> greater than the length of the UDP packet. This situation could indicate
> a denial-of-service attack.
> > Recommended Action Contact the remote peer and the administrator of
> the remote peer.
> > 
> > the remote watchguard 700/III release 7.0 sp1 seem not have a problem.
> > the cisco si that:
> > System image file is "flash:c837-k9o3y6-mz.122-13.ZH2.bin"
> > CISCO C837 (MPC857DSL) processor (revision 0x400) with 29492K/3276K
> bytes of memory.
> > 
> >  Please let me
> > know this as soon as possible.
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> I am just starting to resolve similar problem on my VPN with IPsec
> connection between CISCO VPN Client and CISCO Router (IOS version
> 12.2.15T10) with the same error message.
> Did you have any response for your answer or any advice/hint how to
> resolve this problem?
> 
> Thank you
> 
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