racoon2 Unofficial

News

The current release is racoon2-20100526a.

• racoon2-20100526a was released. (2010-05-26)
• racoon2-20090327c was released. (2009-03-27)
• racoon2-20071227e was released. (2008-02-05)
• racoon2-20071227d was released. (2007-12-27)
• racoon2-20070720a was released. (2007-07-20)
• racoon2-20061228a was released. (2006-12-28)
• racoon2-20060712a was released. (2006-07-14)
• The official site was opened. (2006-07-14)

What Is racoon2?

racoon2 is a tool kit for IPsec. The aim of the racoon2 project is to provide a powerful IPsec system for end-to-end communications. The scope is not limited to key management protocols, but current activities are focused on implementing key management daemons. IKEv1, IKEv2, and KINK daemons are provided.

The target platforms are unix systems with KAME-like PF_KEY extensions, i.e. FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux 2.6. There may be also some interests to support OpenBSD, Solaris, or even Windows, but no work has been done yet. DragonFly BSD and Darwin (Mac OS X) has not been tested, but racoon2 should work on them with trivial modifications.

Official Resources

• The official site of racoon2
• Mailing lists
• Download
• CVSweb

Packages

• FreeBSD ports: security/racoon2

• Unofficial NetBSD pkgsrc: security/racoon2 (for 20100526a version)

Other IPsec Key Management Daemons

• ipsec-tools (IKEv1), inherited maintenance of racoon (version 1) from KAME.
• isakmpd (IKEv1) and iked (IKEv2) in OpenBSD.
• FreeS/WAN (IKEv1), Openswan (IKEv1 and IKEv2), strongSwan (IKEv1 and IKEv2).
• IKEv2 (IKEv2).
• OpenIKEv2 (IKEv2).