IPSEC-STATUS(8)

✨ IPSEC-STATUS ✨

okay bestie, so this is ipsec-status from the <pink>Executable programs</pink> section of the manual — section 8, we're in the big-kid system admin area 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ipsec-status — bestie, it shows you the connection status 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ipsec status [--ctlsocket /run/pluto/pluto.ctl]

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the vibe: ipsec status goes and asks pluto for the current connections status information. that's it. that's the whole job. pluto is the one holding the tea, this command is just the bestie who walks over and asks for it 🫖✨

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• --ctlsocket /run/pluto/pluto.ctl — this is where you point at the control socket, and the default path is /run/pluto/pluto.ctl 💫

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole squad, no cap — go read these too:

• ipsec.conf(5)
• ipsec(8)
• ipsec-add(8)
• ipsec-algparse(8)
• ipsec-briefconnectionstatus(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-stop(8)
• ipsec-trafficstatus(8)
• ipsec-unroute(8)
• ipsec-up(8)
• ipsec-vfychain(8)
• ipsec-whack(8)

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💀 BUGS 💀

none 😌 not a single one. iconic behaviour honestly. the bugs table said "we're full" and left. none

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

written by Andrew Cagney and Tuomo Soini — absolute legends, we stan 🎀

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and that's the whole page, bestie! it's Libreswan 5.4.1, dated 10/23/2026 — go check your connections, periodt 💜🧚