On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 6:07 PM Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Distributions are normally shipping with a special file with
> system-wide crypto policies.  For example, on Fedora/RHEL:
>
>   /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/libreswan.config
>
> This file is included by the main /etc/ipsec.conf.
>
> Today, ovs-monitor-ipsec can't take advantage of that, because we're
> always defining ike and esp algorithms for our connections.
>
> Add '--use-default-crypto' option to ovs-monitor-ipsec.  If it is set,
> the daemon will not specify any crypto policies for connections and
> will use what is provided by default.  In case we're running with a
> root ipsec.conf, it'll be just the defaults that Libreswan has by
> itself.  In case we're running with a sub-config and the
> '--root-ipsec-conf' option, connections will be using crypto options
> defined in 'conn %default' somewhere in other files included from the
> root ipsec.conf; in most cases that will be the system-wide crypto
> policy file like the one mentioned above.
>
> This provides system administrators better control over crypto
> policies used without requiring them to adjust configuration of every
> OVS tunnel.
>
> Users can still override options per-connection by setting
> "ipsec_ike/esp" tunnel configuration.
>
> This mostly makes sense together with '--root-ipsec-conf', so only
> implemented for Libreswan for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
> ---

Acked-by: Mike Pattrick <[email protected]>

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