[Openswan Users] Familiar with OpenSwan.

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Marcos Dytz wrote:

> I started playing around with the OpenSwan code, but had some problems
> because it seems that I don't have Pluto (whack can't find it), would there
> be any other way to manage keys? I am running the OpenSwan installation that
> comes as a default with Familiar 0.8.2.

What does 'ipsec --version' say on it?

> Anyway, I pretend to authenticate myself to the VPN gateway through a
> certificate. Do you know if the OpenSwan code for Familiar checks for
> certificates or some changes are required to do so?

You will need pluto, since that is the openswan IKE daemon.

It is usually started from the startup script 'ipsec'. It should be
in /usr/libexec/ipsec/pluto.

Paul