ipsec: anybody succeeded on getting it to work?

[Graham Leggett]

Graham Leggett wrote:

> Following the instructions at 
> http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/dml_fetch.pl?CompanyID=842&ContentID=1073&FaqID=988&word=ipsec&faq_template=http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/searchfaq.shtm&topic=44&back_refr=http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/&topicname=2.1/3%20-%20Security&Id=&Instance=&Shared= 
> 
> an attempt to bring up the ipsec0 interface fails like so:
> 
> [root at chandler boot]# /sbin/ifup ipsec0
> Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
> Try `grep --help' for more information.
> Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
> Try `grep --help' for more information.
> Missing config file ifcfg-ifcfg-ipsec0.

Turns out the instructions are missing the required DEVICE=ipsec0 entry 
in the file ipcfg-ipsec0, and the ifcfg does not trap this as an error 
condition.

Regards,
Graham
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