Re: IPSec Policy Agent won't start

From: Memnoch (memnoch@nospampleaseimbritish.ntlworld.com)
Date: 11/05/02


From: Memnoch <memnoch@nospampleaseimbritish.ntlworld.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 00:22:18 +0000


On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:59:48 -0500, "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp"
<levinson_k@excite.com> wrote:

>
>"Memnoch" <memnoch@nospampleaseimbritish.ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>news:nkl8su0e8dsr663fm645bc9p5onn0ist15@4ax.com...
>> I seem to be having trouble getting the Policy Agent started. The best
>> explanation I have seen for this is a corrupted policy. But I have created
>one
>> from scratch without effect. The only thing I can think of is that I have
>a
>> copy of PGP Corporate Desktop installed but the VPN stuff is disabled. Are
>> there any other explanations for this? The exact errors are Even 319 and
>321.
>> Oakley failed to start and IPSec driver failed to start.
>
>You're right, Windows 2000 IPsec will have problems if another IPsec service
>is installed [and I'm not sure this is a limitation of Windows or just the
>way IPsec has to work]. If one was installed by PGP, that could conflict,
>maybe even if it was disabled. You might contact a support group for the
>PGP product that is installed. Maybe you can uninstall just the VPN part of
>PGP? I can't really answer this since I'm not a PGP expert. You could try
>the alt.security.pgp newsgroup since this seems to be a frequent question
>there.
>
>Searching www.google.com/advanced_group_search seems to indicate that the
>PGPNet install disables the Windows 2000 IPsec client. I'm guessing there's
>a reason for this [e.g. that PGPNet installs its own, incompatible IPsec
>service].
>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=1vt8deOn
>Onx8oAdB%40pillar.turnpike.com&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3D
>UTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26q%3Dpgp%2Bipsec%2Bwindows%2B2000%2Bstart%2BOR%2Berror
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?q=pgp+ipsec+windows+2000+start+OR+error&hl=e
>n&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=Y1wXLZJRScB9oAtD%40pillar.turnpike.com&rnum=10

Cheers Karl. I had supposed that might be the case but didn't want to
un-install PGP for the hell of it. I will make an image just in case something
goes wrong. Thanks.



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