IPSEC-UNROUTE(8)

💅 IPSEC-UNROUTE 💅

okay bestie, welcome to ipsec-unroute, straight out of section 8 of the manual (the big scary admin one, you got this 🫶). she's small, she's focused, she does one job and she does it flawlessly. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

ipsec-unroute — unroute a connection 💫

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ipsec unroute connection [--config /etc/ipsec.conf]
              [--ctlsocket /run/pluto/pluto.ctl]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: you had a connection that was routed, and now there's route + policy leftovers just... sitting there like crumbs on the counter 😭. ipsec unroute is the broom. it removes the routes and policies left behind from a connection that was previously routed. clean sweep, periodt.

for example, ipsec down leaves states behind on purpose so the connection can hang out in the ondemand state. it's not being messy, it's being intentional, iykyk.

but if your actual goal is to completely disable the connection, bestie, do NOT use this one — you want ipsec delete connection instead. it's giving full send. 🗑️✨

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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-trafficstatus(8), ipsec-up(8), ipsec-vfychain(8), ipsec-whack(8)

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💀 BUGS 💀

none

not a single one. she's flawless, she's that girl, we love a bug-free icon 🙈💖

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Andrew Cagney, Tuomo Soini — legends, honestly, ty for your service 🫶

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and that's the whole page!! this documentation came to you courtesy of Libreswan 5.4.1, dated 10/23/2026 — go forth and unroute responsibly, bestie 🌈⭐💜