From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Description of problem: There is a small typo in the 6.11 section (IPsec Host-to-Host Configuration) of the Red Hat Security Guide. In the example of the ifcfg-ipsec0 configuration, the value for the TYPE parameter is written as IPsec. After some testing I came to the conclusion this has to be IPSEC with all capitals, otherwise the ipsec tunnel won't work if you start it by hand with the ifup command. Apparently when no capitals are used the value for the TYPE parameter is not correctly handled by the network-functions script. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create an ifcfg-ipsec0 configuration file as described in section 6.11 of the Security Guide. 2. Start the ipsec connection with the following command: ifup ipsec0 Actual Results: When the ifup command is executed the output of how to use the ethtool is printed on the screen and the last line is displaying the following error message: Missing config file ifcfg-ifcfg-ipsec0 Expected Results: The IPsec connection should be started when the ifup ipsec0 commando is executed. Additional info: Maybe the network-functions script should be made case insensitive.
Reassigning to maintainer. J
Thank you for your bug report, and for finding this typo. You are correct, the network scripts are case sensitive so the TYPE parameter must equal "IPSEC". The fix will appear in the next version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Security Guide. Thanks again, John
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