Error: ERROR: Tunnel-Password attribute in request: Cannot decrypt it.

[B Thompson]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:19:29PM -0400, Alan DeKok wrote:
> B Thompson <bt4 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Tue Oct 24 14:02:59 2006 : Error: ERROR: Tunnel-Password attribute in request: Cannot decrypt it.
> > 
> > Could someone explain a bit more about what this means and whether it is likely 
> > to be a problem with the NAS?
> > 
> 
>   The NAS is sending an attribute it's not supposed to send.  Yes, it
> would appear to be a problem.
> 
> > Here is the tcpdump print out of the packet which caused the above message :-
> 
>   Nope.  Look at what you posted: there's no Tunnel-Password in it.


Looking at the timestamps it would seem that this is the packet which
caused the error even though tcpdump shows no Tunnel-Password
attribute was present. So, something is definitely odd here. Is there
any way to verify this is the offending packet other than matching timestamps? 

Thanks

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Ben Thompson