charon {}
Options for the charon IKE daemon.
Options for the charon IKE daemon.
**Note**: Many of the options in this section also apply to **charon-cmd**
and other **charon** derivatives. Just use their respective name (e.g.
**charon-cmd** instead of **charon**). For many options defaults can be
defined in the **libstrongswan** section.
charon.accept_private_algs = no
Deliberately violate the IKE standard's requirement and allow the use of
private algorithm identifiers, even if the peer implementation is unknown.
charon.accept_unencrypted_mainmode_messages = no
Accept unencrypted ID and HASH payloads in IKEv1 Main Mode.
Accept unencrypted ID and HASH payloads in IKEv1 Main Mode.
Some implementations send the third Main Mode message unencrypted, probably
to find the PSKs for the specified ID for authentication. This is very
similar to Aggressive Mode, and has the same security implications: A
passive attacker can sniff the negotiated Identity, and start brute forcing
the PSK using the HASH payload.
It is recommended to keep this option to no, unless you know exactly
what the implications are and require compatibility to such devices (for
example, some SonicWall boxes).
charon.block_threshold = 5
Maximum number of half-open IKE_SAs for a single peer IP.
charon.cert_cache = yes
Whether relations in validated certificate chains should be cached in
memory.
charon.cache_crls = no
Whether Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) fetched via HTTP or LDAP should
be saved under a unique file name derived from the public key of the
Certification Authority (CA) to **/etc/ipsec.d/crls** (stroke) or
**/etc/swanctl/x509crl** (vici), respectively.
charon.check_current_path = no
Whether to use DPD to check if the current path still works after any
changes to interfaces/addresses.
By default, after detecting any changes to interfaces and/or addresses no
action is taken if the current path to the remote peer still looks usable.
Enabling this option will use DPD to check if the path actually still works,
or, for instance, the peer removed the state after a longer phase without
connectivity. It will also trigger a MOBIKE update if NAT mappings were
removed during the downtime.
charon.cisco_flexvpn = no
Send the Cisco FlexVPN vendor ID payload (IKEv2 only).
Send the Cisco FlexVPN vendor ID payload, which is required in order to make
Cisco brand devices allow negotiating a local traffic selector (from
strongSwan's point of view) that is not the assigned virtual IP address if
such an address is requested by strongSwan. Sending the Cisco FlexVPN
vendor ID prevents the peer from narrowing the initiator's local traffic
selector and allows it to e.g. negotiate a TS of 0.0.0.0/0 == 0.0.0.0/0
instead. This has been tested with a "tunnel mode ipsec ipv4" Cisco
template but should also work for GRE encapsulation.
charon.cisco_unity = no
Send Cisco Unity vendor ID payload (IKEv1 only).
charon.close_ike_on_child_failure = no
Close the IKE_SA if setup of the CHILD_SA along with IKE_AUTH failed.
charon.cookie_threshold = 10
Number of half-open IKE_SAs that activate the cookie mechanism.
charon.crypto_test.bench = no
Benchmark crypto algorithms and order them by efficiency.
charon.crypto_test.bench_size = 1024
Buffer size used for crypto benchmark.
charon.crypto_test.bench_time = 50
Time in ms during which crypto algorithm performance is measured.
charon.crypto_test.on_add = no
Test crypto algorithms during registration (requires test vectors provided
by the _test-vectors_ plugin).
charon.crypto_test.on_create = no
Test crypto algorithms on each crypto primitive instantiation.
charon.crypto_test.required = no
Strictly require at least one test vector to enable an algorithm.
charon.crypto_test.rng_true = no
Whether to test RNG with TRUE quality; requires a lot of entropy.
charon.delete_rekeyed = no
Delete CHILD_SAs right after they got successfully rekeyed (IKEv1 only).
Delete CHILD_SAs right after they got successfully rekeyed (IKEv1 only).
Reduces the number of stale CHILD_SAs in scenarios with a lot of rekeyings.
However, this might cause problems with implementations that continue to
use rekeyed SAs until they expire.
charon.delete_rekeyed_delay = 5
Delay in seconds until inbound IPsec SAs are deleted after rekeyings (IKEv2
only).
Delay in seconds until inbound IPsec SAs are deleted after rekeyings (IKEv2
only). To process delayed packets the inbound part of a CHILD_SA is kept
installed up to the configured number of seconds after it got replaced
during a rekeying. If set to 0 the CHILD_SA will be kept installed until it
expires (if no lifetime is set it will be destroyed immediately).
charon.dh_exponent_ansi_x9_42 = yes
Use ANSI X9.42 DH exponent size or optimum size matched to cryptographic
strength.
charon.dlopen_use_rtld_now = no
Use RTLD_NOW with dlopen when loading plugins and IMV/IMCs to reveal missing
symbols immediately.
charon.dns1
DNS server assigned to peer via configuration payload (CP).
charon.dns2
DNS server assigned to peer via configuration payload (CP).
charon.dos_protection = yes
Enable Denial of Service protection using cookies and aggressiveness checks.
charon.flush_auth_cfg = no
Free objects during authentication (might conflict with plugins).
If enabled objects used during authentication (certificates, identities
etc.) are released to free memory once an IKE_SA is established. Enabling
this might conflict with plugins that later need access to e.g. the used
certificates.
charon.follow_redirects = yes
Whether to follow IKEv2 redirects (RFC 5685).
charon.force_eap_only_authentication = no
Violate RFC 5998 and use EAP-only authentication even if the peer did not
send an EAP_ONLY_AUTHENTICATION notify during IKE_AUTH.
charon.fragment_size = 1280
Maximum size (complete IP datagram size in bytes) of a sent IKE fragment
when using proprietary IKEv1 or standardized IKEv2 fragmentation, defaults
to 1280 (use 0 for address family specific default values, which uses a
lower value for IPv4). If specified this limit is used for both IPv4 and
IPv6.
charon.group
Name of the group the daemon changes to after startup.
charon.half_open_timeout = 30
Timeout in seconds for connecting IKE_SAs (also see IKE_SA_INIT DROPPING).
charon.hash_and_url = no
Enable hash and URL support.
charon.host_resolver.max_threads = 3
Maximum number of concurrent resolver threads (they are terminated if
unused).
charon.host_resolver.min_threads = 0
Minimum number of resolver threads to keep around.
charon.i_dont_care_about_security_and_use_aggressive_mode_psk = no
Allow IKEv1 Aggressive Mode with pre-shared keys as responder.
If enabled responders are allowed to use IKEv1 Aggressive Mode with
pre-shared keys, which is discouraged due to security concerns (offline
attacks on the openly transmitted hash of the PSK).
charon.ignore_routing_tables
A space-separated list of routing tables to be excluded from route lookups.
charon.ignore_acquire_ts = no
Whether to ignore the traffic selectors from the kernel's acquire events for
IKEv2 connections (they are not used for IKEv1).
If this is disabled the traffic selectors from the kernel's acquire events,
which are derived from the triggering packet, are prepended to the traffic
selectors from the configuration for IKEv2 connection. By enabling this,
such specific traffic selectors will be ignored and only the ones in the
config will be sent. This always happens for IKEv1 connections as the
protocol only supports one set of traffic selectors per CHILD_SA.
charon.ikesa_limit = 0
Maximum number of IKE_SAs that can be established at the same time before
new connection attempts are blocked.
charon.ikesa_table_segments = 1
Number of exclusively locked segments in the hash table.
charon.ikesa_table_size = 1
Size of the IKE_SA hash table.
charon.inactivity_close_ike = no
Whether to close IKE_SA if the only CHILD_SA closed due to inactivity.
charon.init_limit_half_open = 0
Limit new connections based on the current number of half open IKE_SAs, see
IKE_SA_INIT DROPPING in **strongswan.conf**(5).
charon.init_limit_job_load = 0
Limit new connections based on the number of queued jobs.
Limit new connections based on the number of jobs currently queued for
processing (see IKE_SA_INIT DROPPING).
charon.initiator_only = no
Causes charon daemon to ignore IKE initiation requests.
charon.install_routes = yes
Install routes into a separate routing table for established IPsec tunnels.
charon.install_virtual_ip = yes
Install virtual IP addresses.
charon.install_virtual_ip_on
The name of the interface on which virtual IP addresses should be installed.
The name of the interface on which virtual IP addresses should be installed.
If not specified the addresses will be installed on the outbound interface.
charon.integrity_test = no
Check daemon, libstrongswan and plugin integrity at startup.
charon.interfaces_ignore
A comma-separated list of network interfaces that should be ignored, if
**interfaces_use** is specified this option has no effect.
charon.interfaces_use
A comma-separated list of network interfaces that should be used by charon.
All other interfaces are ignored.
charon.keep_alive = 20s
NAT keep alive interval.
charon.keep_alive_dpd_margin = 0s
Number of seconds the keep alive interval may be exceeded before a DPD is
sent instead of a NAT keep alive (0 to disable). This is only useful if a
clock is used that includes time spent suspended (e.g. CLOCK_BOOTTIME).
charon.leak_detective.detailed = yes
Includes source file names and line numbers in leak detective output.
charon.leak_detective.usage_threshold = 10240
Threshold in bytes for leaks to be reported (0 to report all).
charon.leak_detective.usage_threshold_count = 0
Threshold in number of allocations for leaks to be reported (0 to report
all).
charon.load
Plugins to load in the IKE daemon charon.
charon.load_modular = no
Determine plugins to load via each plugin's load option.
If enabled, the list of plugins to load is determined via the value of the
_charon.plugins.<name>.load_ options. In addition to a simple boolean flag
that option may take an integer value indicating the priority of a plugin,
which would influence the order of a plugin in the plugin list (the default
is 1). If two plugins have the same priority their order in the default
plugin list is preserved. Enabled plugins not found in that list are ordered
alphabetically before other plugins with the same priority.
charon.max_ikev1_exchanges = 3
Maximum number of IKEv1 phase 2 exchanges per IKE_SA to keep state about and
track concurrently.
charon.max_packet = 10000
Maximum packet size accepted by charon.
charon.make_before_break = no
Initiate IKEv2 reauthentication with a make-before-break scheme.
Initiate IKEv2 reauthentication with a make-before-break instead of a
break-before-make scheme. Make-before-break uses overlapping IKE and
CHILD_SA during reauthentication by first recreating all new SAs before
deleting the old ones. This behavior can be beneficial to avoid connectivity
gaps during reauthentication, but requires support for overlapping SAs by
the peer. strongSwan can handle such overlapping SAs since version 5.3.0.
charon.multiple_authentication = yes
Enable multiple authentication exchanges (RFC 4739).
charon.nbns1
WINS servers assigned to peer via configuration payload (CP).
charon.nbns2
WINS servers assigned to peer via configuration payload (CP).
charon.port = 500
UDP port used locally. If set to 0 a random port will be allocated.
charon.port_nat_t = 4500
UDP port used locally in case of NAT-T. If set to 0 a random port will be
allocated. Has to be different from **charon.port**, otherwise a random
port will be allocated.
charon.prefer_best_path = no
Whether to prefer updating SAs to the path with the best route.
By default, charon keeps SAs on the routing path with addresses it
previously used if that path is still usable. By setting this option to
yes, it tries more aggressively to update SAs with MOBIKE on routing
priority changes using the cheapest path. This adds more noise, but allows
to dynamically adapt SAs to routing priority changes. This option has no
effect if MOBIKE is not supported or disabled.
charon.prefer_configured_proposals = yes
Prefer locally configured proposals for IKE/IPsec over supplied ones as
responder (disabling this can avoid keying retries due to INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD
notifies).
charon.prefer_temporary_addrs = no
Controls whether permanent or temporary IPv6 addresses are used as source,
or announced as additional addresses if MOBIKE is used.
By default, permanent IPv6 source addresses are preferred over temporary
ones (RFC 4941), to make connections more stable. Enable this option to
reverse this.
It also affects which IPv6 addresses are announced as additional addresses
if MOBIKE is used. If the option is disabled, only permanent addresses are
sent, and only temporary ones if it is enabled.
charon.process_route = yes
Process RTM_NEWROUTE and RTM_DELROUTE events.
charon.processor.priority_threads {}
Section to configure the number of reserved threads per priority class
see JOB PRIORITY MANAGEMENT in **strongswan.conf**(5).
charon.rdn_matching = strict
How RDNs in subject DNs of certificates are matched against configured
identities (_strict_, _reordered_, or _relaxed_).
How RDNs in subject DNs of certificates are matched against configured
identities. Possible values are _strict_ (the default), _reordered_, and
_relaxed_. With _strict_ the number, type and order of all RDNs has to
match, wildcards (*) for the values of RDNs are allowed (that's the case
for all three variants). Using _reordered_ also matches DNs if the RDNs
appear in a different order, the number and type still has to match.
Finally, _relaxed_ also allows matches of DNs that contain more RDNs than
the configured identity (missing RDNs are treated like a wildcard match).
Note that _reordered_ and _relaxed_ impose a considerable overhead on memory
usage and runtime, in particular, for mismatches, compared to _strict_.
charon.receive_delay = 0
Delay in ms for receiving packets, to simulate larger RTT.
charon.receive_delay_response = yes
Delay response messages.
charon.receive_delay_request = yes
Delay request messages.
charon.receive_delay_type = 0
Specific IKEv2 message type to delay, 0 for any.
charon.replay_window = 32
Size of the AH/ESP replay window, in packets.
charon.retransmit_base = 1.8
Base to use for calculating exponential back off, see IKEv2 RETRANSMISSION
in **strongswan.conf**(5).
charon.retransmit_timeout = 4.0
Timeout in seconds before sending first retransmit.
charon.retransmit_tries = 5
Number of times to retransmit a packet before giving up.
charon.retransmit_jitter = 0
Maximum jitter in percent to apply randomly to calculated retransmission
timeout (0 to disable).
charon.retransmit_limit = 0
Upper limit in seconds for calculated retransmission timeout (0 to disable).
charon.retry_initiate_interval = 0
Interval in seconds to use when retrying to initiate an IKE_SA (e.g. if DNS
resolution failed), 0 to disable retries.
charon.reuse_ikesa = yes
Initiate CHILD_SA within existing IKE_SAs (always enabled for IKEv1).
charon.routing_table
Numerical routing table to install routes to.
charon.routing_table_prio
Priority of the routing table.
charon.rsa_pss = no
Whether to use RSA with PSS padding instead of PKCS#1 padding by default.
charon.send_delay = 0
Delay in ms for sending packets, to simulate larger RTT.
charon.send_delay_response = yes
Delay response messages.
charon.send_delay_request = yes
Delay request messages.
charon.send_delay_type = 0
Specific IKEv2 message type to delay, 0 for any.
charon.send_vendor_id = no
Send strongSwan vendor ID payload
charon.signature_authentication = yes
Whether to enable Signature Authentication as per RFC 7427.
charon.signature_authentication_constraints = yes
Whether to enable constraints against IKEv2 signature schemes.
If enabled, signature schemes configured in _rightauth_, in addition to
getting used as constraints against signature schemes employed in the
certificate chain, are also used as constraints against the signature scheme
used by peers during IKEv2.
charon.spi_label = 0x0000000000000000
Value mixed into the local IKE SPIs after applying _spi_mask_.
charon.spi_mask = 0x0000000000000000
Mask applied to local IKE SPIs before mixing in _spi_label_ (bits set will
be replaced with _spi_label_).
charon.spi_min = 0xc0000000
The lower limit for SPIs requested from the kernel for IPsec SAs.
The lower limit for SPIs requested from the kernel for IPsec SAs. Should not
be set lower than 0x00000100 (256), as SPIs between 1 and 255 are reserved
by IANA.
charon.spi_max = 0xcfffffff
The upper limit for SPIs requested from the kernel for IPsec SAs.
charon.start-scripts {}
Section containing a list of scripts (name = path) that are executed when
the daemon is started.
charon.stop-scripts {}
Section containing a list of scripts (name = path) that are executed when
the daemon is terminated.
charon.threads = 16
Number of worker threads in charon.
Number of worker threads in charon. Several of these are reserved for long
running tasks in internal modules and plugins. Therefore, make sure you
don't set this value too low. The number of idle worker threads listed in
_ipsec statusall_ might be used as indicator on the number of reserved
threads.
charon.tls.cipher
List of TLS encryption ciphers.
charon.tls.key_exchange
List of TLS key exchange methods.
charon.tls.mac
List of TLS MAC algorithms.
charon.tls.suites
List of TLS cipher suites.
charon.tls.ke_group
List of TLS key exchange groups.
charon.tls.signature
List of TLS signature schemes.
charon.tls.send_certreq_authorities = yes
Whether to include CAs in a server's CertificateRequest message.
Whether to include CAs in a server's CertificateRequest message. May be
disabled if clients can't handle a long list of CAs.
charon.tls.version_min = 1.2
Minimum TLS version to negotiate.
charon.tls.version_max = 1.2
Maximum TLS version to negotiate.
charon.user
Name of the user the daemon changes to after startup.
charon.x509.enforce_critical = yes
Discard certificates with unsupported or unknown critical extensions.
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