On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 14:11 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:59:33PM -0400, Dan McDonald wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:43:35PM -0400, Girish Moodalbail wrote:
> > >   For now (first phase) 'ifconfig' will not be made obsolete. The *_alg  
> > > support will be present in ifconfig(1M) as it is today. We will not carry 
> > > forward the *_algs support in 'ipadm' as 'ipsecconf' is the right place 
> > > for people to configure it.
> > 
> > Okay, so *_algs goes away no later than when ifconfig(1M) does.  Good.
> > 
> > BTW, for folks in the audience with existing *_algs ifconfig deployments.  
> > If
> > you have:
> > 
> >     ifconfig ip.tun0 ..... encr_algs <foo> encr_auth_algs <bar> ....
> > 
> > You merely need to make that an entry in /etc/inet/ipsecinit.conf
> > (i.e. ipsecconf(1M) input):
> 
> But is that really what we want?  I'd rather have a CLI interface than
> an $EDITOR interface.

If ipsecconf isn't sufficient, then an RFE should be filed to add to it
so that you can supply policy on the command-line.  I doubt that this is
in scope for this project, though.

-Seb


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