_UPDOWN(8)

📦 version 3.32, in ubuntu jammy

✨ _UPDOWN(8) — ipsec__updown.netkey ✨

okay bestie, so this is a section 8 page (that's the "Executable programs" girlies 💅), and the name of the whole thing is literally ipsec__updown.netkey — the klips manipulation script. yes it's niche. yes it's iconic. let's get into it 🫶

💖 NAME 💖

ipsec__updown.netkey — the klips manipulation script, no cap 🌸

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

_updown

so here's the tea 🍓: _updown gets invoked by pluto — yes, pluto, the main character — right when pluto has brought up a new connection. like, pluto did the thing, and now it's calling on _updown to handle the vibe.

what is _updown even doing with its life? it's used to insert the appropriate routing entries for IPsec operation. that's the whole job. routing entries. appropriate ones. for IPsec. periodt. 👑

and if you wanna know what the actual interface to this script looks like (like what pluto hands it, what it expects back)? that's documented in the pluto man page. go read that one, iykyk. 📖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • ipsec(8) — the whole ipsec situation ✨
  • ipsec_pluto(8) — pluto herself, who is the one calling _updown in the first place 💜

🦋 HISTORY 🦋

the lore is REAL, besties. 📜

  • this man page was written for the Linux FreeS/WAN project (<https://www.freeswan.org/>) by Michael Richardson.
  • the original program? written by Henry Spencer. a legend. we stan. 👑

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Paul Wouters

and the description of him here is literally just: "placeholder to suppress warning" 😭💀 no shade, it's in the source, i'm just reporting what it says fr fr

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 — this was libreswan, dated 06/21/2021, and it lives at _UPDOWN(8) forever. mwah. 💖✨🫶

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