[Design] Simplifying OE troubleshooting

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Hi all,

One of my current tasks is to create doc that will help folks troubleshoot new OE setups.

While working on the OE troubleshooting chart at

http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_snaps/CURRENT-SNAP/doc/quickstart.html#oe.trouble

I discovered that a lot of different OE errors have the same symptom: "Possible authentication failure: no acceptable response to our first encrypted message". This makes troubleshooting OE hard.

I think the solution has two components: 1. Discovering early (and often) whether this machine can do OE. 2. Printing informative error messages at various stages in this process.

DHR, will you take it from here, or shall I propose more specifics?

Cheers,

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Claudia

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