strongSwan uses extractable inline documentation extensively. This documentationis extracted with Doxygen for the latest release and uploaded tostrongswan.org/apidoc. Use make apidoc to generate it from thesources.
The simplest way to get strongSwan is to install the binary packages provided by your distribution. Our installation instructions provide links to common distributions and information for building strongSwan from sources.
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TBH the best way is to just not build them. Then you can't forgot to disable them later.
You can configure which plugins are to be loaded before you start the daemon, but in your case, you already made the grave mistake of installing from source.
Hi joseph1267! I am currently looking for a way to adapt Strongswan code to perform 5G AKA authentication against N3IWF node (as defined in 3GPP R15). Would you be kind enough to share at what level you have inserted hard coded EAP payload ?
Thanks !
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Thank you yt8956gh,
I see.Free5gc may implement the NAT-T function in the future. Ok then, I have worked around this ipsec issue, and just sent the registration complete message to the free5gc using the tcp socket and not through the ipsec tunnel, this way, even though the packets are not encrypted or decrypted with esp but will be able to reach the free5gc just by the sockets. And I could see that free5gc was processing accordingly. And I also sent a PDU session establishment request message and was able to receive the Create child SA request message from the N3IWF core. But in the free5gc it was sending the request message as a initiator, and not as responder. During the first IKE SA INIT message Strongswan sends the IKE message as the initiator, so, I thought free5gc should send the Create Child SA message as a responder perspective. Am I thinking correctly?
I also found a bug in free5gc that when it sends the configuration payload with configuration attributes, the ip address and the Mask, the ip address is sent in 16 bytes not 4 bytes through the ike message. As a result it gives an length error in the strongswan. I believe that is because golang library uses byte stream in the same manner between the ipv4 message and ipv6 message.
Thank you.
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Thank you for the reply yt8956gh,
I can see that Child SA can be sent from both side either the initiator or the responder can start the CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange, but as far as I know, the the Original Initiator should be the same until the IKE SA is expires. image533501 8.27 KB
But, in the free5gc, while sending a CREATE_CHILD_SA, it sends the SPI with switched order, which gives a strongswan error.
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As you can see in the picture, free5gc creates the IKE header with the LocalSPI (free5gc side SPI) the initiator instead of the RemoteSPI (strongswan side SPI). Is this some kind of bug? or am I mistaking it?
I resolved this by downloading the source code to OpenSwan from its web site and running sudo make uninstall, which fixes that problem. However, it has created the new problem that ipsec is not a recognized service.
If you prefer, it is also possible to download the StrongSwan source code from strongswan.org and compile from source. If you choose this option, remember to also compile and install the eap-identity and eap-mschapv2 plugins. More information is available at
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The recommended way of configuring strongSwan is via the powerful vici interface and the swanctl command line tool. The swanctl.conf configuration file used by swanctl is stored together with certificates and corresponding private keys in the swanctl directory. Global strongSwan settings as well as plugin-specific configurations are defined in strongswan.conf.
If you configure with --enable-systemd the charon-systemd daemon will be built and a systemd service unit named strongswan will be installed. You can manage that (like any other systemd unit) with systemctl. So to start it at system boot enable the unit with:
This can be out of date, though. If you want a really new version of Strongswan, you can try compiling from source using Github. Ubuntu 18.04 repositories have Strongswan 5.6.2, which is pretty feature-complete.
StrongSWAN is a great opensource product for building software VPN networks, based on IPSEC. It is really easy to build Site-2-Site or Remote-Access VPN with different architectures using StrongSWAN, lots of examples are published in their wiki. At the same time this piece of software provides great test suite options for integration testing.
In this post we will try to make an automated and ephemeral remote access VPN server using Terraform infrastructure as a code abstraction tool, Digital Oceanand StrongSWAN. For convenience I have created github repository with all source codes and Makefile.
Terraform can use template_file resource to run the commands as user_data inside digitalocean_droplet resource or any other resources. When the instance is getting bootstrapped the file is being executed as a shell script. We are keeping it short and the main script is being downloaded from github repository:
Provided API is quite convenient for self-provisioning purpose. Another important configuration file that we are rendering dynamically called ipsec.sercrets, there we will put a random value that was generated by terraform random_id resource
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I had to test IPSec connection on Linux using strongswan as part of a support case i was working on and i collected a lot of good information on how to get this working. So i thought i would share it with you.
Charon startup via starter, as used in OpenWrt, has a hard-coded time limit of 10 seconds. When the limit is reached before the daemon is fully initialized, starter gives up and terminates charon (see the source code).
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I saw there were a couple of comments about could not ping over the ESP tunnel.I also have same problem but not sure this is the same problem other person had before.Let me explain my configuration and my problem.I have setup a server using ubuntu18/strongswan as explained in this tutoria.Also I have a client using ubuntu18/strongswan.
First of all, thank you for the tutorial/documentation which is very well organized.I have just followed this tutorial and I could not make it work.I used ubuntu18/strongswan for server also used ubuntu18/strongswan for client.
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