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

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

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

DESCRIPTION
     racoon speaks the IKE (ISAKMP/Oakley) key management protocol, to establish 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 messages 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      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
     /private/etc/racoon/racoon.conf       default configuration file.
     /private/etc/racoon/psk.txt           default pre-shared key 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 implementation.

SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
     The use of IKE phase 1 aggressive mode is not recommended, as described in
     http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/8866_1.

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