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Other options
The following options will become available on this page depending on what has been
configured previously:
•
The next IP address on the interface the tunnel is to go on
field is the next
gateway IP address or
nexthop
along the previously selected IPSec interface.
This
field will become available if an interface other than the default gateway was selected
for the tunnel to go out on.
•
SPI Number
field is the
Security Parameters Index
.
It is a hexadecimal value and
must be unique.
It is used to establish and uniquely identify the tunnel.
The SPI is
used to determine which key is used to encrypt and decrypt the packets.
It must be
of the form 0x
hex
, where
hex
is one or more hexadecimal digits and be in the range
of
0x100-0xfff
.
This field appears when
Manual Keying
has been selected.
•
Authentication Key
field is the
ESP Authentication Key
.
It must be of the form
0x
hex
, where
hex
is one or more hexadecimal digits.
The
hex
part must be exactly
32 characters long when using MD5 or 40 characters long when using SHA1
(excluding any underscore characters).
This field appears when
Manual Keying
has
been selected.
•
Encryption Key
field is the
ESP Encryption Key
.
It must be of the form 0x
hex
, where
hex
is one or more hexadecimal digits.
The
hex
part must be exactly 16 characters
long when using DES or 48 characters long when using 3DES (excluding any
underscore characters).
This field appears when
Manual Keying
has been selected.
•
Cipher and Hash
pull down menu contains the ESP encryption/authentication
algorithms that can be used for the tunnel.
The option selected must correspond to
the encryption and authentication keys used.
This pull down menu appears when
Manual Keying
has been selected.
The options include the following:
o
3des-md5-96
uses the encryption transform following the Triple-DES standard in
Cipher-Block-Chaining mode with authentication provided by HMAC and MD5
(96-bit authenticator).
It uses a 192-bit 3DES encryption key and a 128-bit
HMAC-MD5 authentication key.
o
3des-sha1-96
uses the encryption transform following the Triple-DES standard in
Cipher-Block-Chaining mode with authentication provided by HMAC and SHA1
(96-bit authenticator).
It uses a 192-bit 3DES
encryption key and a 160-bit
HMAC-SHA1 authentication key.