Hello Andreas,

set up all the connections with

  auto=route

which will install only the corresponding IPsec policies in the
Linux kernel. As soon as the first packet wants to leave a host
in direction to another host for which a secure connection is
defined, the matching IPsec policy will trigger the IKE daemon
and cause it to negotiate the IPsec tunnel just in time.

Best regards

Andreas

Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> hi!
> 
> i would like to inititate my SAa "just in time", meaning that they
> should only set up the secure connection when there is real traffic,
> not ahead of time.
> 
> background to that is that i want to do a full mash of host-to-host
> transports, both within one site in order to get rid of firewalls per
> site,  and between sites, to avoid setting up tunnels between sites.
> 
> not every host will talk to every other host all the time, but they
> might need to talk to any given host within the whole setup sooner or
> later. in order to not having to initiate a connection to every other
> host at ipsec startup i would like to configure strongswan in a way
> that it would only set up the secure host-to-host transport when its
> needed. otherwise i might be DoSing myself when a whole site gets cut
> off from the net and then later comes back again and a few hundret
> servers initiate connections to the rest of the network all at once.
> 
> how can i solve that?
> 
> /andreas

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