The first thing that comes to mind is the rules defining the traffic that will be encrypted, has to 'match', or rather, be mirrored. In other words ... FWA will permit traffic from host-A to host-Z FWB will permit traffic from host-Z to host-A You may already have them configured this way, but it's the first thing I'd check. kelly Quoting Petr Titera <P.Titera@xxxxxxxxxx>: Hello, I have a problem with 26sec tunnel setup. My network configuration looks as follows: | |eth0 +-------+ +-------+ eth1| |eth2 eth0| |eth1 ----| FWA |------------IPSEC VPN-----------------| FWB |---- | | | | +-------+ +-------+ Both firewalls have kernel version 2.6.10. I have ADSL modem connected on eth0 and eth2 at FWA site. I've setted up VPN tunel between both firewals and there fun begins. I can ping the computers in internal networks from both direction. Users from unternal network of FWB can connect to computers in internal network of FWA without any problem, but users from FWA network cannot conect at all. When I trace traffic from FWA network to FWB network I see strange things happen. SYN packets are transfered, but when real communication starts I see this: on FWA:eth1 I see packets to other computer on FWA:eth2 I see packets going to tunnel and packets going from tunnel without a change on FWB:eth0 I see packets from tunnel without a change on FWB:eth1 I see communication in both direction BUT on FWA:eth1 I see packets from other direction as going from another port than I have connected: This is communication as I see it on FWA:eth1 port. Note change from http port to tcpmux port. 09:23:46.372945 IP 192.168.17.200.60424 > 192.168.1.200.http: S 3072626488:3072626488(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 3092376420 0,nop,wscale 0> 09:23:46.485595 IP 192.168.1.200.http > 192.168.17.200.60424: S 2915082851:2915082851(0) ack 3072626489 win 65535 <mss 1460,nop,wscale 0,nop,nop,timestamp 0 0,nop,nop,sackOK> 09:23:46.485715 IP 192.168.17.200.60424 > 192.168.1.200.http: . ack 1 win 5840 <nop,nop,timestamp 3092376478 0> 09:23:51.963654 IP 192.168.17.200.60424 > 192.168.1.200.http: F 1:1(0) ack 1 win 5840 <nop,nop,timestamp 3092379283 0> 09:23:52.065913 IP 192.168.1.200.tcpmux > 192.168.17.200.60424: . ack 3072626490 win 65535 <nop,nop,timestamp 10752655 3092379283> 09:23:52.066028 IP 192.168.17.200.60424 > 192.168.1.200.tcpmux: R 3072626490:3072626490(0) win 0 09:23:52.171022 IP 192.168.1.200.tcpmux > 192.168.17.200.60424: F 0:0(0) ack 1 win 65535 <nop,nop,timestamp 10752656 3092379283> Any idea what is wrong? Petr Titera -- /\ \ \ ) \ ) \ ) \ <=====> ) / ) / ) / / / \/ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://home1.gte.net/res0psau xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx