mustaine737
ISP
A simple IPSEC tunnel is being set up between a Cisco 7200 router and a Cisco PIX firewall:
While using pre-shared authentication for the ISAKMP SA, this key is used: A3hU!q@Li9f$
The main mode exchange fails at the key exchange, and I receive sanity check failures - which usually points to a key mismatch.
If the key is changed to something simple, say "Key12345" it works okay.
I've double and doublechecked the config to make sure the keys were identical. I had 2 other network engineers confirm to make sure I wasnt hallucinating. Also, there are several other IPSEC tunnels on both peers with fairly complex keys similar to the one tried with.
My question is: are there any known issues with certain special characters that could cause this? has anyone seen this before?
As always, thank you very much.
While using pre-shared authentication for the ISAKMP SA, this key is used: A3hU!q@Li9f$
The main mode exchange fails at the key exchange, and I receive sanity check failures - which usually points to a key mismatch.
If the key is changed to something simple, say "Key12345" it works okay.
I've double and doublechecked the config to make sure the keys were identical. I had 2 other network engineers confirm to make sure I wasnt hallucinating. Also, there are several other IPSEC tunnels on both peers with fairly complex keys similar to the one tried with.
My question is: are there any known issues with certain special characters that could cause this? has anyone seen this before?
As always, thank you very much.