A road warrior, ("road":initiator) connecting to east(responder) using Main Mode + XAUTH. the conction will fail to establish due to ipsec whack --debug-all --impair drop-xauth-r0 road will drop XAUTH_R0 (User/Password request) from east. East will try to retransmit on its own first. ie. east will send STATE_MAIN_R3 + STATE_XAUTH_R0(re-created) Road will retransmit the previous main mode request