<font face="verdana, sans-serif">HI Team,</font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">I was just going through the Starter module in Strongswan5.0. I have few queries and would be thankful if you could please help me on the following.</font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Let me put my understanding. </font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">The starter is parsing the conf files using the parser<span style="line-height:13px"> , loading the configuration via the confread and inoking the charon by invokecharon. </span></font></div>
<div><span style="line-height:13px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:13px">I could see the </span><span class="keywordtype" style="background-color:rgb(251,252,253);color:rgb(96,64,32);line-height:11px;white-space:pre-wrap">int</span><span style="background-color:rgb(251,252,253);line-height:11px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a class="code" href="http://fossies.org/dox/strongswan-5.0.0/invokecharon_8c.html#a638c469e1fc894be62cb62cbd9d53369" style="background-color:rgb(251,252,253);color:rgb(70,101,162);text-decoration:none;line-height:11px;white-space:pre-wrap">starter_start_charon</a><span style="background-color:rgb(251,252,253);line-height:11px;white-space:pre-wrap"> (</span><a class="code" href="http://fossies.org/dox/strongswan-5.0.0/structstarter__config.html" style="background-color:rgb(251,252,253);color:rgb(70,101,162);text-decoration:none;line-height:11px;white-space:pre-wrap">starter_config_t</a><span style="background-color:rgb(251,252,253);line-height:11px;white-space:pre-wrap"> *cfg, </span><span class="keywordtype" style="background-color:rgb(251,252,253);color:rgb(96,64,32);line-height:11px;white-space:pre-wrap">bool</span><span style="background-color:rgb(251,252,253);line-height:11px;white-space:pre-wrap"> no_fork, *) is loading the configuration but what I don't understand is </span><span style="background-color:rgb(249,250,252);line-height:20px">s</span><span style="background-color:rgb(249,250,252);line-height:20px">tarterstroke.c</span><span style="background-color:rgb(249,250,252)"><span style="line-height:20px"> which is having the same functionality of loading the configurations into the charon. Is the reason beyond to update via the CLI just like Whack?</span></span></font></div>
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif">int </font></td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom" style="background-color:rgb(249,250,252);border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;margin-top:4px;margin-right:4px;margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:4px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:8px;border-top-width:1px;border-top-color:rgb(196,207,229);width:642px">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a class="el" href="http://fossies.org/dox/strongswan-5.0.0/starterstroke_8h.html#aeeefb7c9e1641e6076dbf84afc0cc7dd" style="color:rgb(70,101,162);text-decoration:none">starter_stroke_add_conn</a> (<a class="el" href="http://fossies.org/dox/strongswan-5.0.0/confread_8h.html#ac8ce8df4394a26c10255a8f3e8001b65" style="color:rgb(70,101,162)">starter_config_t</a> *cfg, <a class="el" href="http://fossies.org/dox/strongswan-5.0.0/confread_8h.html#ac40bcfcdba490693f617c6ac5295e084" style="color:rgb(70,101,162);text-decoration:none">starter_conn_t</a> *conn)</font></td>
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif">int </font></td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom" style="background-color:rgb(249,250,252);border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;margin-top:4px;margin-right:4px;margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:4px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:8px;border-top-width:1px;border-top-color:rgb(196,207,229);width:642px">
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<font face="verdana, sans-serif">int </font></td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom" style="background-color:rgb(249,250,252);border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;margin-top:4px;margin-right:4px;margin-bottom:4px;margin-left:4px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:8px;border-top-width:1px;border-top-color:rgb(196,207,229);width:642px">
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</tr></tbody></table><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">I could see in the documentation is the stroke is yet to be developed just like Whack. </font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Please help me if I m going wrong. Thanks</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Thanks,</font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">KC</font></div>