services.strongswan-swanctl.swanctl.connections.<name>.unique

Connection uniqueness policy to enforce. To avoid multiple connections from the same user, a uniqueness policy can be enforced.

• The value never does never enforce such a policy, even if a peer included INITIAL_CONTACT notification messages,
• whereas no replaces existing connections for the same identity if a new one has the INITIAL_CONTACT notify.
• keep rejects new connection attempts if the same user already has an active connection,
• replace deletes any existing connection if a new one for the same user gets established.

To compare connections for uniqueness, the remote IKE identity is used. If EAP or XAuth authentication is involved, the EAP-Identity or XAuth username is used to enforce the uniqueness policy instead.

On initiators this setting specifies whether an INITIAL_CONTACT notify is sent during IKE_AUTH if no existing connection is found with the remote peer (determined by the identities of the first authentication round). Unless set to never the client will send a notify.

StrongSwan default: "no"