IPSEC-TRAFFICSTATUS(8)

✨ IPSEC-TRAFFICSTATUS(8) ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Executable programs manual collection — it's ipsec-trafficstatus(8) and it's literally the little command that tells you how much traffic your IPsec SAs have been slurping up 🍓 so let's get into it

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💖 NAME 💖

ipsec-trafficstatus — show current Child SA states with traffic counters

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ipsec trafficstatus lists what your current IPsec SA states are up to, traffic counters and all 👑 like a little receipts feed for your tunnels.

⚠️ ngl there's a catch, bestie: when packet hardware offload is in play, the actual counters might be delayed for a number of seconds because of caching — so the number it reports would be slightly out of date 💀 this ALSO affects the logged traffic counters when an IPsec SA is terminated. so don't come for the numbers, they're just a little behind, it's giving fashionably late ✨

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

the whole friend group, fr fr 🫶:

• 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-status(8)
• ipsec-stop(8)
• ipsec-unroute(8)
• ipsec-up(8)
• ipsec-vfychain(8)
• ipsec-whack(8)

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😭 BUGS 😭

none

not a single one, we ate and left no crumbs 💅

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Andrew Cagney, Paul Wouters, Tuomo Soini — icons, the actual main characters 👑

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this lil doc is from Libreswan 5.4.1, dated 10/23/2026, and it lives under the IPSEC-TRAFFICSTATUS(8) name in the manual. iykyk 🌈✨💖