<p dir="ltr">Hey Andreas, </p>
<p dir="ltr">Thank you for response. Quick followup, I need to run 'ipsec start' with the sample configuration file you have shared to start charon in the background? </p>
<p dir="ltr">I apologize for asking very basic questions. I'm just getting started with strongswan. </p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 2:46 AM Andreas Steffen <<a href="mailto:andreas.steffen@strongswan.org">andreas.steffen@strongswan.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Ahmad,<br>
<br>
if you intend to use the vici plugin then you need neither<br>
starter nor stroke. Just start the charon daemon in the<br>
background. The minimum of plugins you need are e.g.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.strongswan.org/uml/testresults/swanctl/rw-cert/moon.strongswan.conf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.strongswan.org/uml/testresults/swanctl/rw-cert/moon.strongswan.conf</a><br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
<br>
Andreas<br>
<br>
On 07/18/2015 04:26 AM, Mohammad Ahmad wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I want to run charon and plan to speak to it using a vici plugin I am<br>
> developing.<br>
> With racoon, I run racoon -f /path/to/config but with charon, I see a<br>
> number of tools that can be used to achieve this, stroke, starter,<br>
> ipsec but am unsure which one will require the minimum number of<br>
> packages to be installed (I want to keep that to a minimum).<br>
><br>
> More infomation<br>
> I will be adding the ipsec policies manually and am using ipsec in<br>
> tunnel mode. I have two sites behind each of which is a subnet.<br>
><br>
> Looking forward to hearing from you guys.<br>
><br>
> Ahmad<br>
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