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Date:      Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:32:02 -0800
From:      Chip Marshall <chip@2bithacker.net>
To:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   IPsec Documentation
Message-ID:  <20151228223202.GA83834@2bithacker.net>

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Good afternoon,

Documentation newbie here, but I've been thinking of updating section
13.7.1 (Configuring a VPN on FreeBSD) of the Handbook for a few reasons,
but figured I should touch base here first and make sure I'm not
duplicating effort or stepping on any toes.

Motivators:
 - The existing racoon.conf in the handbook uses a deprecated syntax for
   remote and sainfo declarations.
 - It also indicates the use of weak ciphers (3DES and MD5)
 - It describes setting up an IP-IP tunnel over tunnel-mode IPsec, which
   is redundant, only need to use one or the other.
 - Lacks any description of the referenced psk.txt file, which could be
   confusing for a newcomer

With the introduction of IPsec into the GENERIC kernel, I
figured it would be good to get this section of the handbook
revised a bit.

As a side note, I noticed there's a fair amount of use of RFC 1918
space (10/8, 192.168/16, etc) in the Handbook. Is there any
interest in revising it to use RFC 5737 space instead? That's dedicated
documentation space that is never supposed to be used in a live network.
There's a corresponding IPv6 space as well, defined in RFC 3849.

Thanks in advance for any input.

--=20
Chip Marshall <chip@2bithacker.net>
http://2bithacker.net/

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