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RACOON(8)		  BSD System Manager's Manual		     RACOON(8)

NAME
     racoon — IKE (ISAKMP/Oakley) key management daemon

SYNOPSIS
     racoon [-46BdFLVv] [-f configfile] [-l logfile] [-P isakmp-natt-port]
	    [-p isakmp-port]

DESCRIPTION
     racoon speaks the IKE (ISAKMP/Oakley) key management protocol, to estab‐
     lish security associations with other hosts.  The SPD (Security Policy
     Database) in the kernel usually triggers racoon.  racoon usually sends
     all informational messages, warnings and error messages to syslogd(8)
     with the facility LOG_DAEMON and the priority LOG_INFO.  Debugging mes‐
     sages are sent with the priority LOG_DEBUG.  You should configure
     syslog.conf(5) appropriately to see these messages.

     -4

     -6	     Specify the default address family for the sockets.

     -B	     Install SA(s) from the file which is specified in racoon.conf(5).

     -d	     Increase the debug level.	Multiple -d arguments will increase
	     the debug level even more.

     -F	     Run racoon in the foreground.

     -f configfile
	     Use configfile as the configuration file instead of the default.

     -L	     Include file_name:line_number:function_name in all messages.

     -l logfile
	     Use logfile as the logging file instead of syslogd(8).

     -P isakmp-natt-port
	     Use isakmp-natt-port for NAT-Traversal port-floating.  The
	     default is 4500.

     -p isakmp-port
	     Listen to the ISAKMP key exchange on port isakmp-port instead of
	     the default port number, 500.

     -V	     Print racoon version and compilation options and exit.

     -v	     This flag causes the packet dump be more verbose, with higher
	     debugging level.

     racoon assumes the presence of the kernel random number device rnd(4) at
     /dev/urandom.

RETURN VALUES
     The command exits with 0 on success, and non-zero on errors.

FILES
     /etc/racoon.conf  default configuration file.

SEE ALSO
     ipsec(4), racoon.conf(5), syslog.conf(5), setkey(8), syslogd(8)

HISTORY
     The racoon command first appeared in the “YIPS” Yokogawa IPsec implemen‐
     tation.

SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
     The use of IKE phase 1 aggressive mode is not recommended, as described
     in http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/886601.

BSD			       January 23, 2009				   BSD

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