VPN connection as a service on Debian

Heya,

To setup an IKEv2 VPN Server with StrongSwan on Ubuntu 20.04, you can follow these general steps:

1. Update your package manager’s cache.
2. Install the StrongSwan software.
3. Create the certificates required for the VPN.
4. Edit the StrongSwan configuration files.
5. Configure your firewall to allow VPN traffic.
6. Start StrongSwan.

To have StrongSwan start at boot, you can use the systemd service. Debian-based systems like Ubuntu should have this installed by default. If StrongSwan was installed through the package manager, the service is likely already set to start at boot. You can check this with the command:

systemctl is-enabled strongswan

If it isn’t enabled, you can enable it with:

systemctl enable strongswan

If you need a step-by-step tutorial, consider this How to Set Up an IKEv2 VPN Server with StrongSwan on Ubuntu 22.04 tutorial from DigitalOcean community tutorials.

Specifically for a Debian-based system like Ubuntu, there may be differences, but that tutorial should give you a good baseline.

Hope that this helps!