Information about the package, libreswan, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libreswan package is designed for, IPsec implementation with IKEv1 and IKEv2 keying protocols.
Package Name:
libreswan
Summary:
IPsec implementation with IKEv1 and IKEv2 keying protocols
Description:
Libreswan is a free implementation of IPsec & IKE for Linux. IPsec is the Internet Protocol Security and uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks. Everything passing through the untrusted net is encrypted by the ipsec gateway machine and decrypted by the gateway at the other end of the tunnel. The resulting tunnel is a virtual private network or VPN. This package contains the daemons and userland tools for setting up Libreswan. It supports the NETKEY/XFRM IPsec kernel stack that exists in the default Linux kernel. Libreswan also supports IKEv2 (RFC-7296) and Secure Labeling Libreswan is based on Openswan-2.6.38 which in turn is based on FreeS/WAN-2.04
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.15
Release:
7.5.el6_9
Size:
1.6 M
Repository:
updates
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the libreswan package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libreswan
This command will install libreswan on the server.
yum remove libreswan
This command will un-install libreswan on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libreswan, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libreswan
This command will un-install libreswan on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libreswan when using the -y flag.
yum update libreswan
This command will update libreswan to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libreswan, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libreswan
This command will update libreswan to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libreswan when using the -y flag.
yum info libreswan
This command will show you core information about the libreswan package.
yum deplist libreswan
This command will show you the dependencies for libreswan. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update libreswan
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libreswan. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.