14.4. Starting and Stopping the Connection

If the IPsec connection was not configured to activate on boot, start and stop it as root via the command line.

To start the connection, execute the following command as root on each host for host-to-host IPsec or each IPsec router for network-to-network IPsec (replace <ipsec-nick> with the one word nickname configured earlier, such as ipsec0):

/sbin/ifup <ipsec-nick>

To stop the connection, execute the following command as root on each host for host-to-host IPsec or each IPsec router for network-to-network IPsec (replace <ipsec-nick> with the one word nickname configured earlier, such as ipsec0):

/sbin/ifdown <ipsec-nick>