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ike

What is ike?

A collection of tools developed by Shrew Soft, Inc. to communicate with Open Source VPN servers (e.g. ipsec-tools) as well as some commercial VPN servers

Disclaimer: This image is not verified by, affiliated with, or supported by Shrew Soft, Inc.

Tool Description Download
iked Daemon which manages tun interfaces (the real vpn client) https://hub.docker.com/r/beardoverflow/ike
ikec Command-line client to talk to the daemon https://hub.docker.com/r/beardoverflow/ike
qikea Graphical interface to talk to the daemon https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.shrew.ike.qikea

What can I find here?

A simple and lightweight docker image which contains iked and ikec. Compiled from scratch to enable LDAP support and based on Debian Stretch 9.

Where I can get qikea?

On Flathub, upload by me: https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.shrew.ike.qikea

Remember to run iked and qikea both simultaneously.

How to use this image?

Running iked

docker run -d --name=iked --net=host --privileged -v /etc/resolv.conf:/etc/resolv.conf -v /run:/run beardoverflow/ike
Parameter Required Description
-d No Run this container on background. Change it to --rm -it for foreground
--name No Just the container name
--net=host Yes Show real network interfaces inside of container
--privileged Yes Privileges escalation for administrative tasks
-v /etc/resolv.conf:/etc/resolv.conf No Custom dns servers of your sites overrides your dns configuration
-v /run:/run Yes Expose the /run/ikedi socket file for ikec/qikea communication

Running ikec

Interactive mode

ikec can run in interactive mode. The keyboard's keys are used to navigate between sites, up/down tunnels, show help, etc.

docker run --rm -it --name=ikec -v /run:/run -v /home/user/sites:/root/.ike/sites beardoverflow/ike ikec

Warning: iked must be running before starting. If not, ikec will not work

Parameter Required Description
--rm -it Yes Run this container on foreground
--name No Just the container name
-v /run:/run Yes The /run/ikedi socket file exposed by iked
-v /home/user/sites:/root/.ike/sites Yes Bind a folder which contains your sites. /home/user/sites is your host's folder sites and /root/.ike/sites is the container's folder sites

Non-interactive mode

ikec can run in non-interactive mode. You must specify a valid configuration at the startup

docker run --rm -it --name=ikec -v /run:/run -v /home/user/sites:/root/.ike/sites beardoverflow/ike ikec -r "My Fancy Site" -u "admin" -p "secretpassword" -a

Warning: iked must be running before starting. If not, ikec will not work

Parameter Required Description
--rm -it No Run this container on foreground. Change it to -d for background
--name No Just the container name
-v /run:/run Yes The /run/ikedi socket file exposed by iked
-v /home/user/sites:/root/.ike/sites Yes Bind a folder which contains your sites. /home/user/sites is your host's folder sites and /root/.ike/sites is the container's folder sites
-r "My Fancy Site" Yes Name of site to connect
-u "admin" Yes Username for logging in the site
-p "secretpassword" Yes Password for logging in the site
-a Yes Auto-connect on the startup

Running qikea

flatpak run net.shrew.ike.qikea

Warning: iked must be running before starting. If not, qikea will not work

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