Hi Andreas,

We are planning to use davici library for the establishment of dynamic
IKEv2 connection using Strongswan’s IKE client.  Are there any licensing
implications of using davici library?   Please confirm/clarify.


Thanks,

Rajeev

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Andreas Steffen <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Rajeev,
>
> there seems something wrong with your user certificate.
>
> You can configure the charon daemon dynamically using the
> VICI interface. There are VICI bindings for the Perl, Ruby
> and Python script languages which can be used by your
> IPsec management application to communicate with the
> charon daemon. For details have a look at
>
>
> https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan/blob/master/src/libcharon/plugins/vici/README.md
>
> If you intend to write your management application in C or C++
> then consider the DAVICI library:
>
> https://github.com/strongswan/davici/blob/master/README.md
>
> Regards
>
> Andreas
>
> On 11.05.2016 13:50, rajeev nohria wrote:
> > Andreas,
> >
> > I appreciate helping me out.  Now I am making progress with Charon
> > running, Not sure why it was stopping before.  I am getting following
> > error now, I am going over my config files. Hopefully I will find the
> > issue.
> >
> > rnohria@ubuntu:~$ sudo swanctl --load-conns
> > 06[LIB] OpenSSL X.509 parsing failed
> > 06[LIB] building CRED_CERTIFICATE - X509 failed, tried 4 builders
> > loading connection 'rw' failed: invalid value for: certs, config
> discarded
> > loaded 0 of 1 connections, 1 failed to load, 0 unloaded
> >
> >
> > Question:
> >
> > Can I use Strongswan to make connections dynamically, not via config
> > file. For config file we need to know information beforehand. If I don't
> > know all the information beforehand like local and remote IP address. Is
> > there any interface exist in Strongswan to support dynamic connection.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rajeev
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:41 AM, Andreas Steffen
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Rajeev,
> >
> >     try running charon in the foreground:
> >
> >        sudo /usr/local/libexec/ipsec/charon
> >
> >     and check for error messages in the console window.
> >
> >     Cheers Andreas
> >
> >     On 11.05.2016 11:53, rajeev nohria wrote:
> >
> >         Andreas,
> >
> >         It seems like Charon daemon is not running, When I run the charon
> >         command, it immediately stops it. Where can I find the charon
> >         log to see
> >         if there is any issue?
> >
> >         rnohria@ubuntu:~$ sudo /usr/local/libexec/ipsec/charon&
> >         [1] 7272
> >         rnohria@ubuntu:~$
> >
> >         [1]+  Stopped                 sudo
> /usr/local/libexec/ipsec/charon
> >
> >         Thanks,
> >         Rajeev
> >
> >
> >         On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 2:55 AM, Andreas Steffen
> >         <[email protected]
> >         <mailto:[email protected]>
> >         <mailto:[email protected]
> >         <mailto:[email protected]>>>
> >         wrote:
> >
> >             Hi Rajeev,
> >
> >             can you check in the charon log if the vici plugin has been
> >         loaded?
> >             And do you see the charon daemon running in the process
> status
> >             (ps aux | grep charon)?
> >
> >             Regards
> >
> >             Andreas
> >
> >             On 05/11/2016 04:04 AM, rajeev nohria wrote:
> >             > Thanks Andreas,
> >             >
> >             > I ran the charon and also copied the charon script file to
> >         /etc/init.d.
> >             > Now when I run sudo swanctl --load-conn, I still get the
> >         same issue.
> >             > connecting to 'unix:///var/run/charon.vici' failed: No
> >         such file or
> >             > directory
> >             > Error: connecting to 'default' URI failed: No such file or
> >         directory
> >             > strongSwan 5.4.0 swanctl
> >             > usage:
> >             >   swanctl --load-conns [--raw|--pretty]
> >             >            --help            (-h)  show usage information
> >             >            --raw             (-r)  dump raw response
> message
> >             >            --pretty          (-P)  dump raw response
> >         message in pretty print
> >             >            --debug           (-v)  set debug level,
> default: 1
> >             >            --options         (-+)  read command line
> >         options from file
> >             >            --uri             (-u)  service URI to connect
> to
> >             >
> >             >
> >             > Am I missing any other step?
> >             >
> >             > Thanks,
> >             > Rajeev
> >             >
> >             > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Andreas Steffen
> >              > <[email protected]
> >         <mailto:[email protected]>
> >             <mailto:[email protected]
> >         <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >             <mailto:[email protected]
> >         <mailto:[email protected]>
> >
> >             <mailto:[email protected]
> >         <mailto:[email protected]>>>>
> >              > wrote:
> >              >
> >              >     Hi Rajeev,
> >              >
> >              >     is the charon daemon running? If not, either start
> charon
> >             manually:
> >              >
> >              >       sudo /usr/local/libexec/ipsec/charon &
> >              >
> >              >     or if your Linux distribution still uses upstart,
> >         copy the
> >              >     following script to /etc/init.d/
> >              >
> >              >
> >              >
> >
> >
> https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/repository/revisions/master/entry/testing/hosts/default/etc/init.d/charon
> >              >
> >              >     and start the charon daemon in the appropriate
> runlevels.
> >              >
> >              >     If your Linux distribution uses systemd instead,
> >         compile and
> >              >     install strongSwan with
> >              >
> >              >        ./config --enable-systemd
> >              >
> >              >     and enable and start the strongswan-swanctl service.
> >              >
> >              >     BTW - in order to use the vici socket you must be
> >         root. Thus
> >              >
> >              >       sudo swanctl --load-conn
> >              >
> >              >     Best regards
> >              >
> >              >     Andreas
> >              >
> >              >
> >              >     On 09.05.2016 16:34, rajeev nohria wrote:
> >              >
> >              >         I am new user of Strongswan and running 5.4.0.
> >         After creating
> >              >         certificates and configuring two Ubuntu m/c with
> >         Strongswan
> >              >         5.4.0. I try
> >              >         to create connection as following and get error.
> >         Please
> >             advise,
> >              >         how to
> >              >         resolve following issue?
> >              >
> >              >         $swanctl --load-conn
> >              >         connecting to 'unix:///var/run/charon.vici'
> >         failed: No
> >             such file or
> >              >         directory
> >              >         Error: connecting to 'default' URI failed: No
> >         such file
> >             or directory
> >              >         strongSwan 5.4.0 swanctl
> >              >         usage:
> >              >
> >              >
> >              >         Thanks,
> >              >         Rajeev
> >              >
> >              >
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