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      acs
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      In some cases when I try to create a site-to-site ipsec tunnel the connection cannot be established because the gif* interface is missing.
      The spd.conf is created automatically, fw rules are ok.
      If I manually create & configure the interface, then everything works like a charm.
      I have tried to comment out the if(isset($tunnel['creategif'])) line in /etc/inc/vpn.inc and added an mwexec("/sbin/ifconfig gif" . $number_of_gifs . " create") after to it. As a result of it, the gif0 device was created but it had no config.
      Do you have any ideas?

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        acs
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        To answer my question: gif interface is not mandatory, but recommended if you are about to debug your ipsec connection.

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