Problem with VPN: can't send NAT-T keepalives
From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Date: 2014-03-10 20:08:35
The VPN setup on my laptop computer doesn't work. The most recent tests have been with the 3.14-rc6 kernel, using libreswan under Fedora 20. The secure channel apparently gets set up correctly, but it gets torn down again after three keepalive packets fail. The error messages from the "pluto" program look like this: Mar 10 15:03:40 saphir.localdomain pluto[11361]: ERROR: "nm-ipsec-l2tpd-11265" #1: sendto on wlan0 on XX.XX.XX.XX:4500 failed in NAT-T Keep Alive. Errno 105: No buffer space available Mar 10 15:04:20 saphir.localdomain pluto[11361]: ERROR: "nm-ipsec-l2tpd-11265" #1: sendto on wlan0 to XX.XX.Xx.XX:4500 failed in NAT-T Keep Alive. Errno 105: No buffer space available (the destination IP addresses have been anonymized). I checked the userspace source; these error codes are nothing more than the value of errno following a failed sendto system call. tcpdump shows that keepalive packets are received at 20-second intervals, as expected, but none are sent. However, after the encrypted tunnel is torn down, several keepalive packets get sent in quick succession, as though some queue was draining. Of course, by then it is far too late. The same problem occurs over a wired Ethernet connection and a wireless link, so it appears to be higher up in the networking stack, not in the device driver. Can anyone help fix this problem? Alan Stern