Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4.5.0 Reference Manual page 147

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secure IP connection, known as IPsec. For instructions on setting up IPsec using the Network
Administration Tool (
Configuration in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration Guide. For instructions on
setting up IPsec manually, refer to the chapter titled Virtual Private Networks in the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Security Guide.
The following example shows the
A. The unique name to identify the connection in this example is
named
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ipsec1
TYPE=IPsec ONBOOT=yes IKE_METHOD=PSK SRCNET=192.168.1.0/24
DSTNET=192.168.2.0/24 DST=X.X.X.X
In the example above,
router.
Below is a listing of the configurable parameters for an IPsec interface:
, where
DST=<address>
This is used for both host-to-host and network-to-network IPsec configurations.
, where
DSTNET=<network>
network. This is only used for network-to-network IPsec configurations.
, where
SRC=<address>
setting is optional and is only used for host-to-host IPsec configurations.
, where
SRCNET=<network>
This is only used for network-to-network IPsec configurations.
TYPE=<interface-type>
the
package.
ipsec-tools
Refer to
/usr/share/doc/initscripts-<version-number>/sysconfig.txt
with the version of the
<version-number>
parameters if using manual key encryption with IPsec.
The
IKEv1 key management daemon negotiates and configures a set of parameters for
racoon
IPSec. It can use preshared keys, RSA signatures, or GSS-API. If
automatically manage key encryption, the following options are required:
IKE_METHOD=<encryption-method>
. If
is specified, the
GSSAPI
PSK
parameter must also be set.
IKE_CERTFILE
IKE_PSK=<shared-key>
system-config-network
file for a network-to-network IPsec connection for LAN
ifcfg
is the publicly routable IP address of the destination IPsec
X.X.X.X
is the IP address of the IPsec destination host or router.
<address>
is the network address of the IPsec destination
<network>
is the IP address of the IPsec source host or router. This
<address>
is the network address of the IPsec source network.
<network>
, where
<interface-type>
initscripts
, where
parameter must also be set. If
IKE_PSK
, where
<shared-key>
), refer to the chapter titled Network
ipsec1
.
is
. Both applications are part of
IPSEC
package installed) for configuration
racoon
<encryption-method>
is the shared, secret value for the PSK
IPsec Interfaces
, so the resulting file is
(replace
is used to
is either
,
, or
PSK
X509
is specified, the
X509
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