IPsec Overview

IPsec is a set of communication rules or protocols for setting up secure connections over a network. StarlingX utilizes IPsec to protect local traffic on the internal management network of multi-node systems.

StarlingX uses strongSwan as the IPsec implementation. strongSwan is an opensource IPsec solution located at https://strongswan.org/.

For the most part, IPsec on StarlingX is transparent to users.