Creating an IPSec Tunnel Profile

To create an IPSec tunnel profile, use the ipsec tunnel profile command. This command creates a tunnel profile of the name you specify and accesses the IPSec Tunnel Profile configuration mode (config-ipsec-tunnel-profile).

ipsec tunnel profile

• Use to create or configure a tunnel profile for IPSec and accesses the IPSec Tunnel Profile configuration mode (config-ipsec-tunnel-profile). To create a new profile, you must specify a profile name.
• Use the optional virtual-router keyword to specify the name of the virtual router on which you want to create the profile (if you do not specify a virtual router name, the profile is created on the context virtual router)
• Example

  host1(config)#ipsec tunnel profile tunnel1

  host1(config-ipsec-tunnel-profile)#

• Use the no version to delete the tunnel profile.
• See ipsec tunnel profile.