Re: Freeswan in Debian, or: Why I am such a bad maintainer
- To: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>, Rene Mayrhofer <rene.mayrhofer@gibraltar.at>, Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>, Dominique Kaiser <dommi_s1@gmx.net>, Giacomo Mulas <gmulas@ca.astro.it>, Steven Augart <augart@watson.ibm.com>, Lupe Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de>, Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net>, Andrew Pimlott <pimlott@idiomtech.com>, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, Alexander Hvostov <alex@aoi.dyndns.org>, Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au>, Russell Stuart <russell-debian-bug@stuart.id.au>, dalhagen@tele-net.net, Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>, Alexei Ustyuzhaninov <alust@UralskyGSM.com>, Jason Spence <jspence@lightconsulting.com>, Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>, Luca Fornasari <luca.fornasari@easybit.it>, Torsten Knodt <tk-debian@datas-world.de>, Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>, Luk Claes <luk.claes@ugent.be>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Nate Carlson <natecars@natecarlson.com>
- Subject: Re: Freeswan in Debian, or: Why I am such a bad maintainer
- From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:24:23 +0200
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On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 03:06:29PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> As I undertand it Debian kernels now feature the Linux ipsec backport,
> basically making the kernel-patch-freeswan stuff obsolete. So why not
> simply just package the freeswan userland to use that? That should be
> pretty simple.
Linux 2.6 ipsec sucks, because it makes packet filtering much harder
and more complicated, and debugging nearly impossible because you
don't see the unencrypted packet with tcpdump.
Greetings
Marc
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