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Re: IPSec questions...



On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:32:22PM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:37:10 -0700 
> Stefan Srdic <linuxbox@telusplanet.net> wrote:
> 
> > I was curious about IPSec and had a few questions about it.  Do
> > you need more then one host on the network in order to use it?
> 
> To do anything useful, yes.
> 
> > Can it be implemented without patching the kernel?
> 
> In the case of FreeS/WAN, no, you have to patch the kernel.
> 
> > Does Debian support it?
> 
> There is a FreeS/WAN package, and there is a FreeS/WAN kernel patch
> package.  I've not had success with the latter (I ended up hand
> patching and building my own kernels).  The base Debian FreeS/WAN
> packages seem to work.

I had success using the kernel-patch-freeswan packages for 2.4 kernels.

1.91 is at least working with 2.4.13. And at least since 2.4.16 it
won't.
using kernel-patch-freeswan from sid I succeeded compiling 2.4.17.

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