[strongSwan] ipsec.secrets file is missing

[Kapil Athi]

Thanks Noel and Carlos.

That's the info i was looking for. Thanks!

btw, i am getting the following error, when i am using strongswan in a QEMU
PPC- VM (only in VM, not in actual HW)

Starting strongSwan 5.3.2 IPsec [starter]...
no netkey IPsec stack detected
no KLIPS IPsec stack detected
no known IPsec stack detected, ignoring!

can you please explain a little bit more on what exactly is this issue ?

i have seen a wiki post about this issue in FreeBSD kernel,
https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/1/wiki/FreeBSD
. From the explanation, it seems, i can ignore this.i am not using FreeBSD,
so bit curious on what exactly is this and why is it seen ?


Known Problems

   - Before strongSwan 4.6.0
   <https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/460> starter
   <https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/IpsecStarter> did
   not use the modular kernel interfaces, thus, when it tried to detect an
   IPsec stack it failed:

   Starting strongSwan 4.x.x IPsec [starter]...
   no netkey IPsec stack detected
   no KLIPS IPsec stack detected
   no known IPsec stack detected, ignoring!

   Fortunately, this detection is not really needed on FreeBSD so simply
   ignore this message.


Thanks
Kapil.


On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Noel Kuntze <noel at familie-kuntze.de> wrote:

> On 06.06.2016 15:55, Kapil Athi wrote:
> >
> > Can somebody tell me, if /etc/ipsec.secrets file will created at compile
> time or during run time ? if so, can you give me some suggestion on where
> to look, if the ipsec.secrets file is missing.
>
> Neither. If your distribution ships with one, it's one created by them, as
> far as I know. I checked what is in the package that can be found in the
> AUR, and there's no ipsec.secret.
>
> It makes no sense to distribute an ipsec.secrets file, because the content
> of it is to be completely customized by you.
>
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>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind Regards,
> Noel Kuntze
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