"vendor ID seems Unity/DPD but major 69 mismatch"

[CiscoBrownBelt]

I see "vendor ID seems Unity/DPD but major 69 mismatch" in a working debug between 2 routers for IPSEC. Not able to find info for what this means. Any help?

[Sheraz.Salim · Accepted solution]

isakmp up and running. i mean phase 1 up? and so the phase2? the way you said it seems all working fine but in your debug you see vendor ID seems Unity/DPD but major 69 mismatch.

Dead peer detection (kind of keep alive, you there or call it a kind of control plan) is going on. however major 69 mismatch this information is optional according to IEEE this is not a mandatory unless some one prove me i am wrong this is my understand of reading the IEEE isakmp. each vendor put different attribute in isakmp heard for example cisco/juniper etc.

[Cristian Matei · Accepted solution]

Hi,

   That message is purely informational, in general. Each vendor attaches its own proprietary info in the ISAKMP packet, and that message usually means the remote side is another vendor , which means the proprietary info is kinda ignored. The IPsec tunnel should still come up.

Regards,

Cristian Matei.

[CiscoBrownBelt]

Awesome great. I am getting that message in VIRL between to CSR1000v routers. Any other cause for it? Yes tunnel is still up but I am just curious.

[Sheraz.Salim · Accepted solution]

These above messages are for specific to vendor not binding with IEEE. Therefore they can be easily ignore. 
howerver in is is isakmp/ikev1 you only need to focus on the 4 stages here the link https://www.tunnelsup.com/isakmp-ike-phase-1-status-messages/