How to Start IPsec Service on Boot Up

How to Start IPsec Service on Boot Up

Version 0.1 (02 May 2018)

Start of IPSec service on boot

By default, will the IPsec service not start on boot of the Nodegrid appliance. Follow the below steps to start the service automatically.

  1. Log-in as root user to the shell
  2. Navigate to the rc5.d directory
    3. cd /etc/rc5.d
  3. Create a symbolic link to the IPSec service
    4. ln -s ../init.d/ipsec S97ipsec

On the next reboot of the appliance will the IPSec service be start automatically. All IPSec sessions which are marked with auto=start will automatically initialized at this point.


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