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  1. A connection between the subnets behind the gateways <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. The negotiated encryption and authentication
  4. algorithms are <b>3DES</b> and <b>SHA-1</b>, respectively.
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  6. Upon the successful establishment of the IPsec tunnel, an updown script automatically
  7. inserts iptables-based firewall rules that let pass the traffic tunneled via the
  8. <b>ipsec0</b> tun interface. In order to test both tunnel and firewall, client <b>alice</b>
  9. behind gateway <b>moon</b> pings client <b>bob</b> located behind gateway <b>sun</b>.