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.Dd May 5, 1998 .Dt IPSEC_SET_POLICY 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm ipsec_set_policy , .Nm ipsec_get_policylen , .Nm ipsec_dump_policy .Nd manipulate IPsec policy specification structure from human-readable policy string
.Sh LIBRARY .Lb libipsec .Sh SYNOPSIS n netinet6/ipsec.h .Ft "char *" .Fn ipsec_set_policy "char *policy" "int len" .Ft int .Fn ipsec_get_policylen "char *buf" .Ft "char *" .Fn ipsec_dump_policy "char *buf" "char *delim" .Sh DESCRIPTION .Fn ipsec_set_policy generates an IPsec policy specification structure, namely .Li struct sadb_x_policy and/or .Li struct sadb_x_ipsecrequest from a human-readable policy specification. The policy specification must be given as a C string .Fa policy and its length .Fa len . .Fn ipsec_set_policy will return a buffer with the corresponding IPsec policy specification structure. The buffer is dynamically allocated, and must be .Xr free 3 Ap d by the caller.
p You can get the length of the generated buffer with .Fn ipsec_get_policylen (i.e. for calling .Xr setsockopt 2 ) .
p .Fn ipsec_dump_policy converts an IPsec policy structure into human-readable form. Therefore, .Fn ipsec_dump_policy can be regarded as the inverse function to .Fn ipsec_set_policy . .Fa buf points to an IPsec policy structure, .Li struct sadb_x_policy . .Fa delim is a delimiter string, which is usually a blank character. If you set .Fa delim to .Dv NULL , a single whitespace is assumed. .Fn ipsec_dump_policy returns a pointer to a dynamically allocated string. It is the caller's responsibility to .Xr free 3 it.
p .Fa policy is formatted as either of the following: l -tag -width "discard" t Ar direction [priority specification] Li discard .Ar direction must be .Li in , .Li out , or .Li fwd . .Ar direction specifies in which direction the policy needs to be applied. The non-standard direction .Li fwd is substituted with .Li in on platforms which do not support forward policies.
p .Ar priority specification is used to control the placement of the policy within the SPD. The policy position is determined by a signed integer where higher priorities indicate the policy is placed closer to the beginning of the list and lower priorities indicate the policy is placed closer to the end of the list. Policies with equal priorities are added at the end of the group of such policies.
p Priority can only be specified when libipsec has been compiled against kernel headers that support policy priorities (Linux \*[Gt]= 2.6.6). It takes one of the following formats: l -tag -width "discard" t Ar {priority,prio} offset .Ar offset is an integer in the range -2147483647..214783648. t Ar {priority,prio} base {+,-} offset .Ar base is either .Li low (-1073741824) , .Li def (0) , or .Li high (1073741824) .
p .Ar offset is an unsigned integer. It can be up to 1073741824 for positive offsets, and up to 1073741823 for negative offsets. .El
p The interpretation of policy priority in these functions and the kernel DOES differ. The relationship between the two can be described as p(kernel) = 0x80000000 - p(func)
p With .Li discard policy, packets will be dropped if they match the policy. t Ar direction [priority specification] Li entrust .Li entrust means to consult the SPD defined by .Xr setkey 8 . t Ar direction [priority specification] Li bypass .Li bypass means to bypass the IPsec processing.
q the packet will be transmitted in clear . This is for privileged sockets. t Ar direction Bo Ar priority specification Bc Li ipsec Ar request ... .Li ipsec means that the matching packets are subject to IPsec processing. .Li ipsec can be followed by one or more .Ar request strings, which are formatted as below: l -tag -width "discard" t Ar protocol Li / Ar mode Li / Ar src Li - Ar dst Op Ar /level .Ar protocol is either .Li ah , .Li esp , or .Li ipcomp .
p .Ar mode is either .Li transport or .Li tunnel .
p .Ar src and .Ar dst specifies the IPsec endpoint. .Ar src always means the .Dq sending node and .Ar dst always means the .Dq receiving node . Therefore, when .Ar direction is .Li in , .Ar dst is this node and .Ar src is the other node
q peer . If .Ar mode is .Li transport , Both .Ar src and .Ar dst can be omitted.
p .Ar level must be set to one of the following: .Li default , use , require , or .Li unique . .Li default means that the kernel should consult the system default policy defined by .Xr sysctl 8 , such as .Li net.inet.ipsec.esp_trans_deflev . See .Xr ipsec 4 regarding the system default. .Li use means that a relevant SA can be used when available, since the kernel may perform IPsec operation against packets when possible. In this case, packets can be transmitted in clear
q when SA is not available , or encrypted
q when SA is available . .Li require means that a relevant SA is required, since the kernel must perform IPsec operation against packets. .Li unique is the same as .Li require , but adds the restriction that the SA for outbound traffic is used only for this policy. You may need the identifier in order to relate the policy and the SA when you define the SA by manual keying. You can put the decimal number as the identifier after .Li unique like .Li unique : number . .Li number must be between 1 and 32767 . If the .Ar request string is kept unambiguous, .Ar level and slash prior to .Ar level can be omitted. However, it is encouraged to specify them explicitly to avoid unintended behavior. If .Ar level is omitted, it will be interpreted as .Li default . .El
p Note that there are slight differences to the specification of .Xr setkey 8 . In the specification of .Xr setkey 8 , both .Li entrust and .Li bypass are not used. Refer to .Xr setkey 8 for details.
p Here are several examples
q long lines are wrapped for readability : d -literal -offset indent in discard out ipsec esp/transport//require in ipsec ah/transport//require out ipsec esp/tunnel/10.1.1.2-10.1.1.1/use in ipsec ipcomp/transport//use esp/transport//use .Ed .El .Sh RETURN VALUES .Fn ipsec_set_policy returns a pointer to the allocated buffer with the policy specification if successful; otherwise a .Dv NULL pointer is returned. .Fn ipsec_get_policylen returns a positive value
q meaning the buffer size on success, and a negative value on errors. .Fn ipsec_dump_policy returns a pointer to a dynamically allocated region on success, and .Dv NULL on errors. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ipsec_strerror 3 , .Xr ipsec 4 , .Xr setkey 8 .Sh HISTORY The functions first appeared in the WIDE/KAME IPv6 protocol stack kit.
