SETUP(8)

🎀 SETUP(8) — ipsec_setup, the wrapper routine bestie 🎀

💖 NAME 💖

ipsec_setup — wrapper routine to the Libreswan init system. That's the whole name vibe, no cap.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so here's the tea: setup gets called — via ipsec setup — by the system administrator to do all the init-system-related tasks for Libreswan. We're talking start, stop, status, reload, etc. for the Internet Keying Exchange (IKE) daemon pluto. It's there for backwards compatibility with Openswan and FreeS/WAN, periodt.

🌈 SUPPORTED INIT SYSTEMS 🌈

Currently, the classic initscripts (sysv) and systemd are supported. Support for upstart will be added soon — bestie, it's coming.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• systemd(8)
• systemd.service(5)
• ipsec(8)
• ipsec__realsetup(8)
• ipsec__plutorun(8)

📜 HISTORY 📜

Man page written for the Linux FreeS/WAN project by Michael Richardson. Original program by Henry Spencer. Updated to https://libreswan.org/> by Paul Wouters.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Paul Wouters — placeholder to suppress warning. Literally just a placeholder to suppress warning, bestie 🙈.

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Sign-off: libreswan · 10/19/2026 · SETUP(8) 🫶💖