IPSEC_PF_KEY(1) IPSEC_PF_KEY(1)
NAME
pf_key(5,8) - shows pfkey messages emitted by the kernel
SYNOPSIS
pf_key(5,8) --ah --esp --ipip --ipcomp --daemon file(1,n) hmac-md5-96|hmac-
sha1-96
DESCRIPTION
pf_key(5,8) is a program to open(2,3,n) a PF_KEY socket(2,7,n) and print all messages that
are received from it. With no options, it will register itself to
receive key requests for AH, ESP, IPIP and IPCOMP security associa-
tions. If given more specific options, then it will listen(1,2,7) only to
those protocols which are listed.
If the messages are recognized, the messages will be decoded.
If the option --daemon is provided, then after doing the registrations,
the program will fork into the background. The provided file(1,n) will be
opened and the process ID of the background process will be written to
it. This option is present to present race conditions in(1,8) regression
testing.
EXAMPLES
FILES /proc(5,n)/net/pf_key(5,8)
SEE ALSO
pf_key(5,8)(5), ipsec(5,8)(8), ipsec_manual(8), ipsec_eroute(5), ipsec_spi(5),
ipsec_spigrp(5), ipsec_klipsdebug(5), ipsec_tncfg(8), ipsec_version(5)
HISTORY
Written for the Linux FreeS/WAN project <http://www.freeswan.org/> by
Michael Richardson <mcr@freeswan.org>
17 Oct 2001 IPSEC_PF_KEY(1)