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authorAngelos D. Keromytis <angelos@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-10-29 05:37:45 +0000
committerAngelos D. Keromytis <angelos@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-10-29 05:37:45 +0000
commitfa01c16af1de66e6e122620a30be8a79a4f9796f (patch)
tree5f803e8f595f5f0f30b9773f129dd4b6f280a15f /share
parent42ef52a509e5c5db75ef5921080a6abd54332965 (diff)
Add text on the new uses of the enc interface (currently lying about
the ipsecadm part).
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/enc.452
1 files changed, 44 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/enc.4 b/share/man/man4/enc.4
index a44cbc63330..ad965f08095 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/enc.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/enc.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: enc.4,v 1.3 1999/10/08 01:50:37 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: enc.4,v 1.4 1999/10/29 05:37:44 angelos Exp $
.Dd October 7, 1999
.Dt ENC 4
.Os
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
.Nm enc
.Nd Encapsulating Interface
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Cd "pseudo-device enc 1"
+.Cd "pseudo-device enc 4"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
@@ -19,7 +19,28 @@ The
.Xr vpn 8
manpage shows an example of such a setup.
.Pp
-The other use of the
+Another use is to allow the creation of virtual-ethernets, using
+.Xr ipsec 4 .
+See
+.Xr bridge 4
+and
+.Xr ipsecadm 8
+for more details. Briefly,
+.Nm
+interfaces can be part of a bridge configuration. Such interfaces are
+treated as ethernet interfaces; packets sent to them by the bridge are
+IPsec-processed and sent to the remote bridge (which reverses the process and
+injects the original ethernet frames in the local ethernet segments).
+Packets received with the appropriate IPsec SA are made to appear as if
+they arrived over the corresponding
+.Nm
+interface, and are then processed by the bridge accordingly.
+.Xr ipsecadm 8
+is used to associate an
+.Nm
+interface with an IPsec SA. This is a one-to-one correspondence.
+.Pp
+The last use of the
.Nm
interface is to allow an administrator to see outgoing packets before
they have been processed by
@@ -27,13 +48,28 @@ they have been processed by
or incoming packets after they have been similarly processed, via
.Xr tcpdump 1 .
.Pp
-There is only one
+The
+.Dq enc0
+interface inherits all the IPsec traffic that does not have another
+.Nm
+interface explicitly assigned to it. Thus, if one were never to assign
+an IPsec SA to another
.Nm
-interface, named
+interface, all IPsec traffic could be filtered based on
.Dq enc0 ,
-regardless of the argument given on the
-.Sy pseudo-device
-line in the kernel configuration file.
+and all IPsec traffic could be seen by invoking
+.Xr tcpdump 1
+on the
+.Dq enc0
+interface. IPsec SAs that have been assigned to some other
+.Nm
+interface can be snooped via
+.Xr tcpdump 1
+or filtered via
+.Xr ipf 5
+through that
+.Nm
+interface.
.Sh EXAMPLES
To see all outgoing packets before they have been processed via
.Xr ipsec 4 ,