On 12/16/24 01:28, Mike Pattrick wrote:
> 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]>
> 

Thanks, Mike!  I applied the set to main.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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