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. -- Florian Friesdorf <42ff@gmx.net> OpenPGP key available on public key servers ------> Save the future of Open Source <------ -> Online-Petition against Software Patents <- ------> http://petition.eurolinux.org <-------
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