[strongSwan] charon vs pluto

[Andreas Steffen]

Hi Frank,

if you don't want to start the IKEv2 charon daemon just define

  charonstart=no

in the config setup section of ipsec.conf. You don't have to
change any entries in strongswan.conf

Regards

Andreas

 On 27.07.2010 16:18, Frank Liu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to strongswan and trying to setup a strongswan roadwarrior to
> talk to company's VPN server (astaro security gateway 7.5).
> 
> Based on strongswan doc:
> charon  	The IKEv2 keying daemon.
> pluto 	The IKEv1 keying daemon.
> 
> Since astaro doesn't support ikev2, I assume I will have to use pluto
> (ikev1 daemon) with strongswan? Shall I just comment out the charon
> section and uncomment the pluto section in strongswan.conf? In the
> ipsec.conf, I guess I should set charonstart=no and plutostart=yes?
> 
> Thanks!
> Frank

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