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| author | Niklas Hallqvist <niklas@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-05-14 10:46:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Niklas Hallqvist <niklas@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-05-14 10:46:24 +0000 |
| commit | 4a63cf51b0f34ac1512fdd4878d611412702b408 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e7a98006fa048443c69a993b99bd696ec74d8b9 /sbin/ipsec/startkey | |
| parent | 1006b5508923cc13595542292e8940aae6f3cd3f (diff) | |
Explain exchange_lifetime a bit more
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/ipsec/startkey')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/ipsec/startkey/startkey.1 | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ipsec/startkey/startkey.1 b/sbin/ipsec/startkey/startkey.1 index b55180606d3..7a190d64355 100644 --- a/sbin/ipsec/startkey/startkey.1 +++ b/sbin/ipsec/startkey/startkey.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: startkey.1,v 1.5 1998/05/13 12:29:36 niklas Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: startkey.1,v 1.6 1998/05/14 10:46:23 niklas Exp $ .\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de> .\" All rights reserved. .\" @@ -104,7 +104,14 @@ addresses match their respective options the packet will be routed into the tunnel. .It exchange_lifetime Determines the lifetime of the exchange. After an exchange expires -no new SPIs are created. +no new SPIs are created, which means the transport or tunnel is torn down +as soon as the current SPI times out (see +.Nm spi_lifetime +below). The default value is gotten from the +.Nm exchange_lifetime +parameter given in +.Pa photuris.conf . +If it is not given there the default is 1800 seconds. .It spi_lifetime Determines the lifetime of each created SPI in the exchange. .It user |