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  1. A connection between the hosts <b>moon</b> and <b>sun</b> is set up.
  2. The authentication is based on <b>X.509 certificates</b> and the <b>kernel-libipsec</b>
  3. plugin is used for userland IPsec ESP encryption. <b>Firewall marks</b> are used to make
  4. the direct ESP connection possible and still allow IKE traffic to flow freely between
  5. the two hosts.
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  7. Upon the successful establishment of the IPsec tunnel, an updown script automatically
  8. inserts iptables-based firewall rules that let pass the traffic tunneled via the
  9. <b>ipsec0</b> tun interface. In order to test both host-to-host tunnel and firewall,
  10. <b>moon</b> pings <b>sun</b>.