From: Rolando J. Zappacosta > Interesting thing is, as explained to you privatelly, the way the PSK gets > handled here. Under the LVC (windows) I had to configure a PSK like: > <MyCompanysPSK> where the real PSK is 9 ASCII characters long. However, I > could find that in order to have OSW establishing phase 1 succesfully I had to > add the string "01234567890" as a trailer, i.e. my ipsec.secrets looks like: > !@#$% <MyCompanysGWipAddress> : PSK "<MyCompanysPSK>01234567890" > > what gives a PSK of lenght 20. Not sure on how they handle it but my guess is > they just take the PSK the user configures, add the string > "01234567890123456789" and take the first 20 bytes of it. Easy way to hook you > on their client while still keeping it simply to develop. > > And I'm not sure if the user !@#$% is the one the GW admin configured on it or > if it's the way they handle it but whatever else I configure, the GW just > don't respond anything back to me.