ISAKMP/IKE Phase 1 Policies

One of the first steps you’ll take in setting up IPsec—L2L or remote access—is to define your ISAKMP policies for your ISAKMP/IKE Phase 1 management connection. The following subsections will discuss how to create your policies and the following section will define how to configure the device authentication information you’ve chosen for your Phase 1 policies.

Enabling ISAKMP

If you have a router with the IPsec feature, ISAKMP/IKE is enabled by default. To enable or disable it, use the following command:

Router(config)# [no] crypto isakmp enable
						

You need to disable ISAKMP/IKE only if the remote peers do not support it, in which case you’ll have to configure all parameters and keys for the data connection manually ...

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