openswan

Package Name:

openswan

Summary:

IPSEC implementation with IKEv1 and IKEv2 keying protocols

URL:

http://www.openswan.org/

Description:

Openswan 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 Openswan. It supports the NETKEY/XFRM IPsec kernel stack that exists in the default Linux kernel. Openswan 2.6.x also supports IKEv2 (RFC4306)

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

2.6.32

Release:

37.el6

Size:

908 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+

Command

Description of Command

yum install openswan

This command will install openswan on the server.

yum remove openswan

This command will un-install openswan on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove openswan, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove openswan

This command will un-install openswan 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 openswan when using the -y flag.

yum update openswan

This command will update openswan to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove openswan, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update openswan

This command will update openswan 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 openswan when using the -y flag.

yum info openswan

This command will show you core information about the openswan package.

yum deplist openswan

This command will show you the dependencies for openswan. 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 openswan

This command will check if there is an update waiting on openswan. 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.

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