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Date:      Tue, 31 Oct 2023 04:09:46 GMT
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: 224fc33f6038 - main - setkey(8): make the policy specification more readable
Message-ID:  <202310310409.39V49k9K048084@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by kib:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=224fc33f603884e7eb9ed219afdd4c57ddec3cb9

commit 224fc33f603884e7eb9ed219afdd4c57ddec3cb9
Author:     Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2023-10-31 04:07:10 +0000
Commit:     Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2023-10-31 04:07:10 +0000

    setkey(8): make the policy specification more readable
    
    by applying markup and highlighting the semantical blocks.
    
    Sponsored by:   NVidia networking
    MFC after:      1 week
---
 sbin/setkey/setkey.8 | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sbin/setkey/setkey.8 b/sbin/setkey/setkey.8
index 7dab0f622efd..8eece16030e5 100644
--- a/sbin/setkey/setkey.8
+++ b/sbin/setkey/setkey.8
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd May 27, 2023
+.Dd October 31, 2023
 .Dt SETKEY 8
 .Os
 .\"
@@ -472,27 +472,43 @@ is expressed in one of the following three formats:
 .Xc
 .El
 .Pp
-The direction of a policy must be specified as
-one of:
+.Bl -tag -compact -width "policy level"
+.It Ar direction
+The
+.Ar direction
+of a policy must be specified as one of:
 .Li out
 or
 .Li in .
+.It Ar policy level
 The direction is followed by one of the following policy levels:
 .Li discard ,
 .Li none ,
 or
 .Li ipsec .
+.Bl -compact -bullet
+.It
 The
 .Li discard
-policylevel means that packets matching the supplied indices will
-be discarded while
+policy level means that packets matching the supplied indices will
+be discarded.
+.It
+The
 .Li none
-means that IPsec operations will not take place on the packet and
+policy level means that IPsec operations will not take place on
+the packet.
+.It
+The
 .Li ipsec
-means that IPsec operation will take place onto the packet.
+policy level means that IPsec operation will take place onto
+the packet.
+.El
+.It Ar protocol/mode/src-dst/level
 The
 .Ar protocol/mode/src-dst/level
 statement gives the rule for how to process the packet.
+.Bl -compact -bullet
+.It
 The
 .Ar protocol
 is specified as
@@ -500,12 +516,15 @@ is specified as
 .Li esp
 or
 .Li ipcomp .
+.It
 The
 .Ar mode
 is either
 .Li transport
 or
 .Li tunnel .
+.El
+.Pp
 If
 .Ar mode
 is
@@ -517,6 +536,7 @@ and
 with a dash,
 .Sq - ,
 between the addresses.
+.Pp
 If
 .Ar mode
 is
@@ -526,6 +546,7 @@ both
 and
 .Ar dst
 can be omitted.
+.Pp
 The
 .Ar level
 is one of the following:
@@ -534,25 +555,32 @@ or
 .Li unique .
 If the SA is not available in every level, the kernel will request
 the SA from the key exchange daemon.
+.Pp
+.Bl -compact -bullet
+.It
 A value of
 .Li default
 tells the kernel to use the system wide default protocol
 e.g.,\& the one from the
 .Li esp_trans_deflev
 sysctl variable, when the kernel processes the packet.
+.It
 A value of
 .Li use
 means that the kernel will use an SA if it is available,
 otherwise the kernel will pass the packet as it would normally.
+.It
 A value of
 .Li require
 means that an SA is required whenever the kernel sends a packet matched
 that matches the policy.
+.It
 The
 .Li unique
 level is the same as
 .Li require
 but, in addition, it allows the policy to bind with the unique out-bound SA.
+.Pp
 For example, if you specify the policy level
 .Li unique ,
 .Xr racoon 8 Pq Pa ports/security/ipsec-tools
@@ -570,6 +598,8 @@ must be between 1 and 32767,
 which corresponds to
 .Ar extensions Fl u
 of manual SA configuration.
+.El
+.El
 .Pp
 When you want to use an SA bundle, you can define multiple rules.
 For



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