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ERROR_IPSEC_IKE_ERROR
A generic IKE status hides the failing negotiation stage
Windows exposes many specific IKE statuses for proposals, certificates, payload parsing, timeouts, and policy. This value is the broad fallback when the keying module records a failure without one of those narrower reasons. It identifies the IKE/AuthIP subsystem, but it does not tell you whether the fault was peer input, local policy, authentication, or SA installation.
Diagnosis should therefore preserve the surrounding events. The IKE state machine is message-driven, and a generic terminal code is far more useful when paired with the preceding Main Mode or Quick Mode audit event, peer address, authentication method, and the last specific status in the same exchange.
What to inspect
- Do not weaken crypto or authentication solely because the status says unknown error.
- Check whether a more specific IKE status appears immediately before this code in the same negotiation.
- Compare the active IPsec policy and SA state on both peers; asymmetric policy is common in generic failures.
Get-NetIPsecMainModeSA
Get-NetIPsecQuickModeSAReferences
- Microsoft: Windows Filtering Platform API sets
- Microsoft: New-NetIPsecMainModeRule
- Microsoft: IPsec audit events
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