NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
adds, updates, dumps, or flushes
Security Association Database (SAD) entries
as well as Security Policy Database (SPD) entries in the kernel.
takes a series of operations from standard input
if invoked with
or the file named
if invoked with
- flag)
Dump the SAD entries or SPD entries contained in the specified
- ?
Print short help.
- a
usually does not display dead SAD entries with
If
is also specified, the dead SAD entries will be displayed as well.
A dead SAD entry is one that has expired but remains in the
system because it is referenced by some SPD entries.
- D
Dump the SAD entries.
If
is also specified, the SPD entries are dumped.
If
is specified, the ports are displayed.
- F
Flush the SAD entries.
If
is also specified, the SPD entries are flushed.
- H
Add hexadecimal dump in
mode.
- h
On
synonym for
On other systems, synonym for
- k
Use semantics used in kernel.
Available only in Linux.
See also
- l
Loop forever with short output on
- n
No action.
The program will check validity of the input, but no changes to
the SPD will be made.
- r
Use semantics described in IPsec RFCs.
This mode is default.
For details see section
Available only in Linux.
See also
- x
Loop forever and dump all the messages transmitted to the
socket.
prints the unformatted timestamps.
- V
Print version string.
- v
Be verbose.
The program will dump messages exchanged on the
socket, including messages sent from other processes to the kernel.
With
or
on the command line,
accepts the following configuration syntax.
Lines starting with hash signs
are treated as comment lines.
- Xo
Add an SAD entry.
can fail for multiple reasons, including when the key length does
not match the specified algorithm.
- Xo
Show an SAD entry.
- Xo
Remove an SAD entry.
- Xo
Remove all SAD entries that match the specification.
- Xo
Clear all SAD entries matched by the options.
on the command line achieves the same functionality.
- Xo
Dumps all SAD entries matched by the options.
on the command line achieves the same functionality.
- Xo
Add an SPD entry.
- Xo
Add an SPD entry based on a PF tag.
must be a string surrounded by double quotes.
- Xo
Delete an SPD entry.
- Xo
Clear all SPD entries.
on the command line achieves the same functionality.
- Xo
Dumps all SPD entries.
on the command line achieves the same functionality.
Meta-arguments are as follows:
- src
- dst
Source/destination of the secure communication is specified as
an IPv4/v6 address, and an optional port number between square
brackets.
can resolve a FQDN into numeric addresses.
If the FQDN resolves into multiple addresses,
will install multiple SAD/SPD entries into the kernel
by trying all possible combinations.
and
restrict the address resolution of FQDN in certain ways.
and
restrict results into IPv4/v6 addresses only, respectively.
avoids FQDN resolution and requires addresses to be numeric addresses.
protocol
is one of following:
- esp
ESP based on rfc2406
- esp-old
ESP based on rfc1827
- ah
AH based on rfc2402
- ah-old
AH based on rfc1826
- ipcomp
IPComp
- tcp
TCP-MD5 based on rfc2385
spi
Security Parameter Index
for the SAD and the SPD.
must be a decimal number, or a hexadecimal number with a
prefix.
SPI values between 0 and 255 are reserved for future use by IANA
and cannot be used.
TCP-MD5 associations must use 0x1000 and therefore only have per-host
granularity at this time.
extensions
take some of the following:
- mode
Specify a security protocol mode for use.
is one of following:
or
The default value is
- size
Specify window size of bytes for replay prevention.
must be decimal number in 32-bit word.
If
is zero or not specified, replay checks don't take place.
- id
Specify the identifier of the policy entry in the SPD.
See
- pad_option
defines the content of the ESP padding.
is one of following:
- zero-pad
All the paddings are zero.
- random-pad
A series of randomized values are used.
- seq-pad
A series of sequential increasing numbers started from 1 are used.
- nocyclic-seq
Don't allow cyclic sequence numbers.
- time
- time
Specify hard/soft life time duration of the SA measured in seconds.
- bytes
- bytes
Specify hard/soft life time duration of the SA measured in bytes transported.
algorithm
- key
Specify an encryption algorithm
for ESP.
- Xo
Specify an encryption algorithm
as well as a payload authentication algorithm
for ESP.
- key
Specify an authentication algorithm for AH.
- R
Specify a compression algorithm for IPComp.
If
is specified, the
field value will be used as the IPComp CPI
on wire as-is.
If
is not specified,
the kernel will use well-known CPI on wire, and
field will be used only as an index for kernel internal usage.
must be a double-quoted character string, or a series of hexadecimal
digits preceded by
Possible values for
and
are specified in the
sections.
src_range
dst_range
These select the communications that should be secured by IPsec.
They can be an IPv4/v6 address or an IPv4/v6 address range, and
may be accompanied by a TCP/UDP port specification.
This takes the following form:
and
must be decimal numbers.
The square brackets around
are really necessary,
they are not man page meta-characters.
For FQDN resolution, the rules applicable to
and
apply here as well.
upperspec
Upper-layer protocol to be used.
You can use one of the words in
as
or
or
stands for
You can also use the protocol number.
You can specify a type and/or a code of ICMPv6 when the
upper-layer protocol is ICMPv6.
The specification can be placed after
A type is separated from a code by single comma.
A code must always be specified.
When a zero is specified, the kernel deals with it as a wildcard.
Note that the kernel can not distinguish a wildcard from an ICPMv6
type of zero.
For example, the following means that the policy doesn't require IPsec
for any inbound Neighbor Solicitation.
does not work against forwarding case at this moment,
as it requires extra reassembly at the forwarding node
There are many protocols in
but all protocols except of TCP, UDP, and ICMP may not be suitable
to use with IPsec.
You have to consider carefully what to use.
policy
is in one of the following three formats:
You must specify the direction of its policy as
Either
or
can be used.
is used to control the placement of the policy within the SPD.
Policy position is determined by
a signed integer where higher priorities indicate the policy is placed
closer to the beginning of the list and lower priorities indicate the
policy is placed closer to the end of the list.
Policies with equal priorities are added at the end of groups
of such policies.
Priority can only
be specified when setkey has been compiled against kernel headers that
support policy priorities (Linux >= 2.6.6).
If the kernel does not support priorities, a warning message will
be printed the first time a priority specification is used.
Policy priority takes one of the following formats:
- Xo
is an integer in the range from -2147483647 to 214783648.
- Xo
is either
or
is an unsigned integer.
It can be up to 1073741824 for
positive offsets, and up to 1073741823 for negative offsets.
means the packet matching indexes will be discarded.
means that IPsec operation will not take place onto the packet.
means that IPsec operation will take place onto the packet.
The
part specifies the rule how to process the packet.
Either
or
must be used as
is either
or
If
is
you must specify the end-point addresses of the SA as
and
with
between these addresses, which is used to specify the SA to use.
If
is
both
and
can be omitted.
is to be one of the following:
or
If the SA is not available in every level, the kernel will
ask the key exchange daemon to establish a suitable SA.
means the kernel consults the system wide default for the protocol
you specified, e.g. the
sysctl variable, when the kernel processes the packet.
means that the kernel uses an SA if it's available,
otherwise the kernel keeps normal operation.
means SA is required whenever the kernel sends a packet matched
with the policy.
is the same as
in addition, it allows the policy to match the unique out-bound SA.
You just specify the policy level
racoon(8)
will configure the SA for the policy.
If you configure the SA by manual keying for that policy,
you can put a decimal number as the policy identifier after
separated by a colon
like:
in order to bind this policy to the SA.
must be between 1 and 32767.
It corresponds to
of the manual SA configuration.
When you want to use SA bundle, you can define multiple rules.
For example, if an IP header was followed by an AH header followed
by an ESP header followed by an upper layer protocol header, the
rule would be:
The rule order is very important.
When NAT-T is enabled in the kernel, policy matching for ESP over
UDP packets may be done on endpoint addresses and port
(this depends on the system.
System that do not perform the port check cannot support
multiple endpoints behind the same NAT).
When using ESP over UDP, you can specify port numbers in the endpoint
addresses to get the correct matching.
Here is an example:
spdadd 10.0.11.0/24[any] 10.0.11.33/32[any] any -P out ipsec
esp/tunnel/192.168.0.1[4500]-192.168.1.2[30000]/require ;
These ports must be left unspecified (which defaults to 0) for
anything other than ESP over UDP.
They can be displayed in SPD dump using
Note that
and
are not in the syntax described in
ipsec_set_policy(3)
There are a few differences in the syntax.
See
ipsec_set_policy(3)
for detail.
The following list shows the supported algorithms.
and
are almost orthogonal.
These authentication algorithms can be used as
in
of the
parameter:
algorithm keylen (bits)
hmac-md5 128 ah: rfc2403
128 ah-old: rfc2085
hmac-sha1 160 ah: rfc2404
160 ah-old: 128bit ICV (no document)
keyed-md5 128 ah: 96bit ICV (no document)
128 ah-old: rfc1828
keyed-sha1 160 ah: 96bit ICV (no document)
160 ah-old: 128bit ICV (no document)
null 0 to 2048 for debugging
hmac-sha256 256 ah: 96bit ICV
(draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-sha-256-00)
256 ah-old: 128bit ICV (no document)
hmac-sha384 384 ah: 96bit ICV (no document)
384 ah-old: 128bit ICV (no document)
hmac-sha512 512 ah: 96bit ICV (no document)
512 ah-old: 128bit ICV (no document)
hmac-ripemd160 160 ah: 96bit ICV (RFC2857)
ah-old: 128bit ICV (no document)
aes-xcbc-mac 128 ah: 96bit ICV (RFC3566)
128 ah-old: 128bit ICV (no document)
tcp-md5 8 to 640 tcp: rfc2385
These encryption algorithms can be used as
in
of the
parameter:
algorithm keylen (bits)
des-cbc 64 esp-old: rfc1829, esp: rfc2405
3des-cbc 192 rfc2451
null 0 to 2048 rfc2410
blowfish-cbc 40 to 448 rfc2451
cast128-cbc 40 to 128 rfc2451
des-deriv 64 ipsec-ciph-des-derived-01
3des-deriv 192 no document
rijndael-cbc 128/192/256 rfc3602
twofish-cbc 0 to 256 draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-aes-cbc-01
aes-ctr 160/224/288 draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-aes-ctr-03
Note that the first 128 bits of a key for
will be used as AES key, and the remaining 32 bits will be used as nonce.
These compression algorithms can be used as
in
of the
parameter:
algorithm
deflate rfc2394
The Linux kernel uses the
policy instead of the
policy for packets what are forwarded through that particular box.
In
mode,
manages and shows policies and SAs exactly as they are stored in the kernel.
In
mode,
t
creates
policies for every
policy inserted
t
(not implemented yet) filters out all
policies
RETURN VALUES
The command exits with 0 on success, and non-zero on errors.
EXAMPLES
add 3ffe:501:4819::1 3ffe:501:481d::1 esp 123457
-E des-cbc 0x3ffe05014819ffff ;
add -6 myhost.example.com yourhost.example.com ah 123456
-A hmac-sha1 "AH SA configuration!" ;
add 10.0.11.41 10.0.11.33 esp 0x10001
-E des-cbc 0x3ffe05014819ffff
-A hmac-md5 "authentication!!" ;
get 3ffe:501:4819::1 3ffe:501:481d::1 ah 123456 ;
flush ;
dump esp ;
spdadd 10.0.11.41/32[21] 10.0.11.33/32[any] any
-P out ipsec esp/tunnel/192.168.0.1-192.168.1.2/require ;
add 10.1.10.34 10.1.10.36 tcp 0x1000 -A tcp-md5 "TCP-MD5 BGP secret" ;
SEE ALSO
ipsec_set_policy(3)
racoon(8)
sysctl(8)
.%T "Changed manual key configuration for IPsec"
.%O "http://www.kame.net/newsletter/19991007/"
.%D "October 1999"
HISTORY
The
command first appeared in the WIDE Hydrangea IPv6 protocol stack
kit.
The command was completely re-designed in June 1998.
BUGS
should report and handle syntax errors better.
For IPsec gateway configuration,
and
with TCP/UDP port numbers does not work, as the gateway does not
reassemble packets