  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='B'>initial-contact</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>whether to send an INITIAL_CONTACT payload to the peer we are initiating to, if we currently have no
IPsec SAs up with that peer.  Acceptable values are: <emphasis remap='B'>yes</emphasis> (the default) and
<emphasis remap='B'>no</emphasis>.
It is recommended to leave this option set, unless multiple clients
with the same identity are expected to connect using the same subnets
and should operate at the same time. Or if a reconnecting client should
not delete its old instance (eg perhaps it is still running). This is
unlikely to be true.
</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
