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SRX VPN Phase-1 negotiation failed with error Timeout

If your phase 1 negotiation is timing out from your SRX, it may be due to lack of IKE setting on the host-inbound-traffic setting.

Here is a typical error:

Jan 01 12:00:00 Phase-1 negotiation failed with error Timeout for p1_local=ipv4(
udp:500,[0..3]=192.0.2.1) p1_remote=ipv4(udp:500,[0..3]=198.51.100.1)


A broken config will look like this –...Read More »

SRX cluster SSH/HTTPS access to secondary fails

A Juniper SRX cluster configuration does not allow access to the secondary device, even by out-of-band management, but default. This is expected behaviour, as the non-primary device in a cluster will not start the router process. So, unless your out-of-band management gives you access from the same layer 2 network,...Read More »