ipsec__stackmanager8

Usage

Overview

ipsec _stackmanager is called from within the init sub-system (systemd, upstart, sysv initscripts) to bring up the Libreswan kernel component as configured via the protostack= option in the ipsec.conf configuration file.

This involves loading and optionally unloading of the required kernel modules. Because the Linux kernel cannot autodetect most crypto related drivers on-demand, _stackmanager handles loading the modules for the specific IPsec stack.

When the --xfrm option is given to the start command, the XFRM stack is loaded regardless of the existence or contents of the ipsec.conf file. This is used for docker tests where the host system, which might not have libreswan installed, needs to run _stackmanager from the source tree to load the modules on the host so the modules are available inside the containers.