IPSEC-BRIEFCONNECTI(8)

💖 IPSEC-BRIEFCONNECTI ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for ipsec-briefconnectionstatus — it lives in the Executable programs section (that's section 8, iykyk) 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ipsec-briefconnectionstatus — get the brief connection status from the IPsec service 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ipsec briefconnectionstatus [connection]
                            [--ctlsocket /run/pluto/pluto.ctl]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So ipsec briefconnectionstatus lowkey lists the brief connection status straight from the pluto daemon, for all the connections, or literally just the one you optionally name in connection. No cap.

It's giving one line per connection, and each line shows:

• the client and host IPs
• bytes
• connection name
• reqid

The way it's so cute and scannable?? 🎀

But bestie hear me — if you want the complete connection status, that is not this command. Go run ipsec connectionstatus instead, periodt. 😤

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The whole friend group came through 💖 every single one of these:

• ipsec.conf(5)
• ipsec(8)
• ipsec-add(8)
• ipsec-algparse(8)
• ipsec-briefstatus(8)
• ipsec-certutil(8)
• ipsec-checkconfig(8)
• ipsec-checknflog(8)
• ipsec-checknss(8)
• ipsec-connectionstatus(8)
• ipsec-crlutil(8)
• ipsec-delete(8)
• ipsec-down(8)
• ipsec-ecdsasigkey(8)
• ipsec-fetchcrls(8)
• ipsec-fipsstatus(8)
• ipsec-globalstatus(8)
• ipsec-import(8)
• ipsec-initnss(8)
• ipsec-letsencrypt(8)
• ipsec-listall(8)
• ipsec-listcacerts(8)
• ipsec-listcerts(8)
• ipsec-listcrls(8)
• ipsec-listen(8)
• ipsec-listpubkeys(8)
• ipsec-modutil(8)
• ipsec-newhostkey(8)
• ipsec-ondemand(8)
• ipsec-pk12util(8)
• ipsec-pluto(8)
• ipsec-purgeocsp(8)
• ipsec-redirect(8)
• ipsec-replace(8)
• ipsec-rereadall(8)
• ipsec-rereadcerts(8)
• ipsec-rereadsecrets(8)
• ipsec-restart(8)
• ipsec-route(8)
• ipsec-rsasigkey(8)
• ipsec-setup(8)
• ipsec-showhostkey(8)
• ipsec-showroute(8)
• ipsec-showstates(8)
• ipsec-shuntstatus(8)
• ipsec-start(8)
• ipsec-status(8)
• ipsec-stop(8)
• ipsec-trafficstatus(8)
• ipsec-unroute(8)
• ipsec-up(8)
• ipsec-vfychain(8)
• ipsec-whack(8)

💀 BUGS 💀

none

(not one single bug, we love that for us 😌✨)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

• Andrew Cagney
• Brady Johnson
• Tuomo Soini

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