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AH both authenticates and guarantees the integrity of an IP packet by attaching a cryptographic checksum computed using one-way hash functions. ESP, in addition, prevents unauthorized parties from reading the payload of an IP packet by also encrypting it. IPComp tries to increase communication performance by compressing IP payload, thus reducing the amount of data sent. This will help nodes on slow links but with enough computing power. .Nm operates in one of two modes: transport mode or tunnel mode. Transport mode is used to protect peer-to-peer communication between end nodes. Tunnel mode encapsulates IP packets within other IP packets and is designed for security gateways such as VPN endpoints. .Pp System configuration requires the .Xr crypto 4 subsystem. .Pp The packets can be passed to a virtual .Xr enc 4 interface, to perform packet filtering before outbound encryption and after decapsulation inbound. .Pp To properly filter on the inner packets of an .Nm tunnel with firewalls, you can change the values of the following sysctls .Bl -column net.inet6.ipsec6.filtertunnel default enable .It Sy "Name Default Enable" .It "net.inet.ipsec.filtertunnel 0 1" .It "net.inet6.ipsec6.filtertunnel 0 1" .El .\" .Ss Kernel interface .Nm is controlled by a key management and policy engine, that reside in the operating system kernel. Key management is the process of associating keys with security associations, also know as SAs. Policy management dictates when new security associations created or destroyed. .Pp The key management engine can be accessed from userland by using .Dv PF_KEY sockets. The .Dv PF_KEY socket API is defined in RFC2367. .Pp The policy engine is controlled by an extension to the .Dv PF_KEY API, .Xr setsockopt 2 operations, and .Xr sysctl 3 interface. The kernel implements an extended version of the .Dv PF_KEY interface and allows the programmer to define IPsec policies which are similar to the per-packet filters. The .Xr setsockopt 2 interface is used to define per-socket behavior, and .Xr sysctl 3 interface is used to define host-wide default behavior. .Pp The kernel code does not implement a dynamic encryption key exchange protocol such as IKE (Internet Key Exchange). Key exchange protocols are beyond what is necessary in the kernel and should be implemented as daemon processes which call the .Nm APIs. .\" .Ss Policy management IPsec policies can be managed in one of two ways, either by configuring per-socket policies using the .Xr setsockopt 2 system calls, or by configuring kernel level packet filter-based policies using the .Dv PF_KEY interface, via the .Xr setkey 8 you can define IPsec policies against packets using rules similar to packet filtering rules. Refer to .Xr setkey 8 on how to use it. .Pp When setting policies using the .Xr setkey 8 command, the .Dq Li default option instructs the system to use its default policy, as explained below, for processing packets. The following sysctl variables are available for configuring the system's IPsec behavior. The variables can have one of two values. A .Li 1 means .Dq Li use , which means that if there is a security association then use it but if there is not then the packets are not processed by IPsec. The value .Li 2 is synonymous with .Dq Li require , which requires that a security association must exist for the packets to move, and not be dropped. These terms are defined in .Xr ipsec_set_policy 8 . .Bl -column net.inet6.ipsec6.esp_trans_deflev integerxxx .It Sy "Name Type Changeable" .It "net.inet.ipsec.esp_trans_deflev integer yes" .It "net.inet.ipsec.esp_net_deflev integer yes" .It "net.inet.ipsec.ah_trans_deflev integer yes" .It "net.inet.ipsec.ah_net_deflev integer yes" .It "net.inet6.ipsec6.esp_trans_deflev integer yes" .It "net.inet6.ipsec6.esp_net_deflev integer yes" .It "net.inet6.ipsec6.ah_trans_deflev integer yes" .It "net.inet6.ipsec6.ah_net_deflev integer yes" .El .Pp If the kernel does not find a matching, system wide, policy then the default value is applied. The system wide default policy is specified by the following .Xr sysctl 8 variables. .Li 0 means .Dq Li discard which asks the kernel to drop the packet. .Li 1 means .Dq Li none . .Bl -column net.inet6.ipsec6.def_policy integerxxx .It Sy "Name Type Changeable" .It "net.inet.ipsec.def_policy integer yes" .It "net.inet6.ipsec6.def_policy integer yes" .El .\" .Ss Miscellaneous sysctl variables When the .Nm protocols are configured for use, all protocols are included in the system. To selectively enable/disable protocols, use .Xr sysctl 8 . .Bl -column net.inet.ipcomp.ipcomp_enable .It Sy "Name Default" .It "net.inet.esp.esp_enable On" .It "net.inet.ah.ah_enable On" .It "net.inet.ipcomp.ipcomp_enable On" .El .Pp In addition the following variables are accessible via .Xr sysctl 8 , for tweaking the kernel's IPsec behavior: .Bl -column net.inet6.ipsec6.inbonud_call_ike integerxxx .It Sy "Name Type Changeable" .It "net.inet.ipsec.ah_cleartos integer yes" .It "net.inet.ipsec.ah_offsetmask integer yes" .It "net.inet.ipsec.dfbit integer yes" .It "net.inet.ipsec.ecn integer yes" .It "net.inet.ipsec.debug integer yes" .It "net.inet6.ipsec6.ecn integer yes" .It "net.inet6.ipsec6.debug integer yes" .El .Pp The variables are interpreted as follows: .Bl -tag -width 6n .It Li ipsec.ah_cleartos If set to non-zero, the kernel clears the type-of-service field in the IPv4 header during AH authentication data computation. This variable is used to get current systems to inter-operate with devices that implement RFC1826 AH. It should be set to non-zero (clear the type-of-service field) for RFC2402 conformance. .It Li ipsec.ah_offsetmask During AH authentication data computation, the kernel will include a 16bit fragment offset field (including flag bits) in the IPv4 header, after computing logical AND with the variable. The variable is used for inter-operating with devices that implement RFC1826 AH. It should be set to zero (clear the fragment offset field during computation) for RFC2402 conformance. .It Li ipsec.dfbit This variable configures the kernel behavior on IPv4 IPsec tunnel encapsulation. If set to 0, the DF bit on the outer IPv4 header will be cleared while 1 means that the outer DF bit is set regardless from the inner DF bit and 2 indicates that the DF bit is copied from the inner header to the outer one. The variable is supplied to conform to RFC2401 chapter 6.1. .It Li ipsec.ecn If set to non-zero, IPv4 IPsec tunnel encapsulation/decapsulation behavior will be friendly to ECN (explicit congestion notification), as documented in .Li draft-ietf-ipsec-ecn-02.txt . .Xr gif 4 talks more about the behavior. .It Li ipsec.debug If set to non-zero, debug messages will be generated via .Xr syslog 3 . .El .Pp Variables under the .Li net.inet6.ipsec6 tree have similar meanings to those described above. .\" .Sh PROTOCOLS The .Nm protocol acts as a plug-in to the .Xr inet 4 and .Xr inet6 4 protocols and therefore supports most of the protocols defined upon those IP-layer protocols. The .Xr icmp 4 and .Xr icmp6 4 protocols may behave differently with .Nm because .Nm can prevent .Xr icmp 4 or .Xr icmp6 4 routines from looking into the IP payload. .\" .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ioctl 2 , .Xr socket 2 , .Xr ipsec_set_policy 3 , .Xr crypto 4 , .Xr enc 4 , .Xr icmp6 4 , .Xr intro 4 , .Xr ip6 4 , .Xr setkey 8 , .Xr sysctl 8 .\".Xr racoon 8 .Rs .%A "S. Kent" .%A "R. Atkinson" .%T "IP Authentication Header" .%O "RFC 2404" .Re .Rs .%A "S. Kent" .%A "R. Atkinson" .%T "IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)" .%O "RFC 2406" .Re .Sh STANDARDS .Rs .%A Daniel L. McDonald .%A Craig Metz .%A Bao G. Phan .%T "PF_KEY Key Management API, Version 2" .%R RFC .%N 2367 .Re .Pp .Rs .%A "D. L. McDonald" .%T "A Simple IP Security API Extension to BSD Sockets" .%R internet draft .%N "draft-mcdonald-simple-ipsec-api-03.txt" .%O work in progress material .Re .Sh HISTORY The original .Nm implementation appeared in the WIDE/KAME IPv6/IPsec stack. .Pp For .Fx 5.0 a fully locked IPsec implementation called fast_ipsec was brought in. The protocols drew heavily on the .Ox implementation of the .Tn IPsec protocols. The policy management code was derived from the .Tn KAME implementation found in their .Tn IPsec protocols. The fast_ipsec implementation lacked .Xr ip6 4 support but made use of the .Xr crypto 4 subsystem. .Pp For .Fx 7.0 .Xr ip6 4 support was added to fast_ipsec. After this the old KAME IPsec implementation was dropped and fast_ipsec became what now is the only .Nm implementation in .Fx . .Sh BUGS There is no single standard for the policy engine API, so the policy engine API described herein is just for this implementation. .Pp AH and tunnel mode encapsulation may not work as you might expect. If you configure inbound .Dq require policy with an AH tunnel or any IPsec encapsulating policy with AH (like .Dq Li esp/tunnel/A-B/use ah/transport/A-B/require ) , tunnelled packets will be rejected. This is because the policy check is enforced on the inner packet on reception, and AH authenticates encapsulating (outer) packet, not the encapsulated (inner) packet (so for the receiving kernel there is no sign of authenticity). The issue will be solved when we revamp our policy engine to keep all the packet decapsulation history. .Pp When a large database of security associations or policies is present in the kernel the .Dv SADB_DUMP and .Dv SADB_SPDDUMP operations on .Dv PF_KEY sockets may fail due to lack of space. Increasing the socket buffer size may alleviate this problem. .Pp The .Tn IPcomp protocol may occasionally error because of .Xr zlib 3 problems. .Pp This documentation needs more review.