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

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

     racoon [-BdFv46] [-f configfile] [-l logfile] [-p isakmp-port]

DESCRIPTION

     racoon speaks IKE (ISAKMP/Oakley) key management protocol, to establish security association with other hosts.  SPD (Security Policy
     Database) in the kernel usually triggers to start racoon.	racoon usually sends all of informational messages, warnings and error messages to
     syslogd(8) with the facility LOG_DAEMON, the priority LOG_INFO.  Debugging messages are sent with the priority LOG_DEBUG.	You should config-
     ure syslog.conf(5) appropriately to see these messages.

     -B      Install SA(s) from the file which is specified in racoon.conf(5).

     -d      Increase the debug level.	Multiple -d 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 logfile
	     Use logfile as the logging file instead of syslogd(8).

     -p isakmp-port
	     Listen to ISAKMP key exchange on port isakmp-port instead of the default port number, 500.

     -v      The flag causes the packet dump be more verbose, with higher debugging level.

     -4

     -6      Specifies the default address family for the sockets.

     racoon assumes the presence of kernel random number device rnd(4) at /dev/urandom.  Informational messages are labeled info, and debugging
     messages are labeled debug.  You have to configure syslog.conf(5) if you want to see them in a logging file.

RETURN VALUES

     The command exits with 0 on success, and non-zero on errors.

FILES

     /usr/local/v6/etc/racoon.conf  default configuration file.

SEE ALSO

     ipsec(4), racoon.conf(5), syslog.conf(5), setkey(8), syslogd(8)

HISTORY

     The racoon command first appeared in ``YIPS'' Yokogawa IPsec implementation.

KAME
								 November 20, 2000							      KAME