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    JustLeo
    last edited by May 16, 2017, 3:19 PM

    Is there a way to start an IpSec Tunnel from the command line? I tried with wget, curl, service ipsec start, nothing is working for me.
    The version of pfsense that I'm using is: 2.3.2

    Thanks.

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      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
      last edited by May 17, 2017, 3:37 PM

      That depends, if you want to stop and start the entire ipsec service, use:  pfSsh.php playback svc stop ipsec or pfSsh.php playback svc start ipsec

      If you only want to control a single tunnel, that is trickier, but possible with the "ipsec" command (use "ipsec โ€“help" for some pointers on its use)

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        JustLeo
        last edited by May 26, 2017, 3:29 PM

        I found the way: /usr/local/sbin/ipsec up <connection name="">and the connection name I can take it from this file: /var/etc/ipsec/ipsec.conf which is automatically generated.
        Problem now is that after creating a new IpSec tunnel via Command Line, ipsec.conf file is NOT getting updated and I cannot start my IpSec tunnel from a command. Thoughts?
        I already tried with these commands:

        /usr/local/sbin/ipsec update
        /usr/local/sbin/ipsec reload</connection>

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