Thank you for your answer.

2, The other side is complaining about the lifetime:

Apr 22 09:37:58 black racoon: ERROR: long lifetime proposed: my:600 peer:28800
Apr 22 09:37:58 black racoon: ERROR: not matched
Apr 22 09:37:58 black racoon: ERROR: no suitable policy found.

Peer is in this case the pix 501.

Thanks in advance.

Stefan

Can you please share the isakmp policy on both ends? Also which version of 6.3 are you running? And what device is this end?

isakmp enable outside
isakmp key mykey address 80.82.223.63 netmask 255.255.255.255 no-xauth no-config-mode
isakmp identity address
isakmp nat-traversal 20
isakmp log 99
isakmp policy 5 authentication pre-share
isakmp policy 5 encryption 3des
isakmp policy 5 hash md5
isakmp policy 5 group 2
isakmp policy 5 lifetime 600

Cisco PIX Firewall Version 6.3(5)

The other side is ipsec-tools/racoon 0.7.3 (the old kame stuff)

Thanks

stefan

Thanks. Can you also share the isakmp policy on the racoon server?

You can also run "debug crypto isakmp" on the PIX end, and share the debug output.

Seems like the policy does not match.

Here is the debug output after i try to establish a conenction with the remote side:

(output removed to not disclose too much informations)

Damn, now i see the problem. How do i then set the lifetime at pix side for phase2 (rekeeying of SA's) ?

Stefan

It would be under the crypto map section.

Command: crypto map set security-association lifetime seconds 28800

Awesome! That's it! Thank you very much. I owe you a beer

Cheers.