Re: [Ipsec-tools-devel] Unhelpful error: racoon: failed to parse configuration file

[Timo T. <tim...@ik...>]

On 07/08/2011 04:50 AM, Wolf Wings wrote:
> /etc/racoon/racoon.conf
> 
> path certificate "/etc/racoon/certs";
> path pre_shared_key "/etc/racoon/psk.txt";
> path script "/etc/racoon/scripts";
> 
> remote anonymous {
>         exchange_mode main;
>         my_identifier fqdn "vpn.wolfwings.us <http://vpn.wolfwings.us>"
> 
>         certificate_type x509 "vpn.wolfwings.us.crt" "vpn.wolfwings.us.key";
>         ca_type x509 "ca.crt";
> 
>         passive on;
>         generate_policy on;
>         nat_traversal force;
> 
>         proposal {
>                 encryption_algorithm aes;
>                 hash_algorithm sha1;
>                 authentication_method rsasig;
>                 dh_group 14;
>         };
> };
> 
> sainfo anonymous {
>         encryption_algorithm aes;
>         authentication_algorithm hmac_sha1;
>         compression_algorithm deflate;
> };
> And looking at the source code, I realize racoon isn't being told
> anything more than 'parse failed' but could someone help tell me what I
> missed here? I don't see any typos, but this is the most utterly useless
> error message here. :/

Remove semi colons after braces. It's:
 foo {
 }

*Not*
 foo {
 };

- Timo