racoon-tool - program to manage the racoon(8) IPSEC IKE daemon.

racoon-tool [-h] reload|restart|force-reload|start|stop

racoon-tool [-h] sadflush|spdflush|saddump|spddump

racoon-tool [-h] vpndown|vdown|vpnup|vup connection-name|all

racoon-tool [-h] vpnreload|vreload connection-name|all

racoon-tool [-h] vpnlist|vlist [connection-name|all]

racoon-tool [-h] vpnmenu|vmenu [connection-name-regexp]

racoon-tool [-h] racoonstart|racoonstop|rstart|rstop

This manual page documents briefly the racoon-tool command. racoon-tool(8) is a perl script that can be used to control the racoon(8) IKE daemon and the SPD database within the kernel via the setkey(8) command. Various operations that it can do are described below.

You can also optionally choose not to use it via reconfiguring the racoon package using dpkg-reconfigure(8).

A summary of options are included below.

-h

Show summary of options.

start

Start racoon(8), loading any needed modules, configuring the SPD, and generating a configuration from

stop

Stop racoon(8) unloading any crypto/IPSEC modules, flushing the SAD and SPD.

reload

Regenerate configuration from racoon(8) and reinitialise the SPD and SAD.

restart|force-reload

Perform a stop followed by a start

sadflush

Flush the SAD via setkey(8).

spdflush

Flush the SPD via setkey(8).

saddump|dump

Dump the SAD to screen via setkey(8), paginating via your pager.

spddump

Dump the SPD to screen via setkey(8), paginating via your pager.

vpnup|vup connection-name|all

Bring up the VPN connection(s).

vpndown|vdown connection-name|all

Take down the VPN connection(s).

vpnreload|vreload connection-name|all

Reload the VPN connection(s).

vpnlist|vlist [connection-name|all]

List the known VPN connections in /etc/racoon/racoon-tool.conf. Can be used by a script or administrator to see if a VPN connection exists.

vpnmenu|vmenu [connection-name-regexp]

Start the VPN menu management mode. This displays the SPD, and you can shutdown VPNs from here. Latter on support will be added for checking status and reloading the chosen connection.

racoonstart|rstart

Start only the racoon(8) daemon.

racoonstop|rstop

Stop only the racoon(8) daemon.

/etc/racoon/racoon-tool.conf

- configuration file.

/var/lib/racoon/racoon.conf

- generated racoon.conf

racoon(8), racoon.conf(5), setkey(8), racoon-tool.conf(5).

This manual page was written by Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).