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Re: ipsec (freeswan)



also sprach Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <tgakic@chem.tue.nl> [2002.12.02.2209 +0100]:
> Is someone using ipsec from freeswan?

yes.

> I run stable, and I tried the freeswan 1.96, but when I go through the
> documentations it says to run ipsec verify,

try

  ipsec whack --status

ipsec verify only works after 1.98

> that verify is not an option. I took the tar file from freeswan site
> and I did make install. Now I have the verify option, but it says that
> the Pluto service is not working. The solution for it (from the
> documentation) is to run "service ipsec start", which I don't understand.
> I try /etc/init.d/ipsec start, but there is no such file
> /etc/init.d/ipsec, same for /etc/init.d/freeswan.

you should remove the custom tarball and go back to the debian
package, which does install the init.d script. you will need to
configure your ipsec.conf and the startg the init.d script like you
said.

have you patched the kernel?

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