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  1. The peers <b>carol</b>, <b>dave</b>, and <b>moon</b> all have dynamic IP addresses,
  2. so that the remote end is defined symbolically by <b>right=%&lt;hostname&gt;</b>.
  3. The ipsec starter resolves the fully-qualified hostname into the current IP address
  4. via a DNS lookup (simulated by an /etc/hosts entry). Since the peer IP addresses are
  5. expected to change over time, the prefix '%' is used as an implicit alternative to the
  6. explicit <b>rightallowany=yes</b> option which will allow an IKE
  7. main mode rekeying to arrive from an arbitrary IP address under the condition that
  8. the peer identity remains unchanged. When this happens the old tunnel is replaced
  9. by an IPsec connection to the new origin.
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  11. In this scenario both <b>carol</b> and <b>dave</b> initiate a tunnel to
  12. <b>moon</b> which has a named connection definition for each peer. Although
  13. the IP addresses of both <b>carol</b> and <b>dave</b> are stale, thanks to
  14. the '%' prefix <b>moon</b> will accept the IKE negotiations from the actual IP addresses.