Re: sparc64 and ipsec anyone?

[Patrick Morris <trick@adonis.net>]

In my experience, it's been unusable on anything big-endian.

Daniel van Eeden wrote:

> Is it an sparc64 only problem or is ipsec also unusable on sparc32?
>
> Daniel van Eeden <daniel_e@dds.nl>
>
> Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 11:06:51AM +0100, Ulrich Wurst wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone of you successfully managed to use ipsec on a sparc64 
> > > machine?
> >
> >
> > I've still never managed to get it working.  I've basically given up on
> > freeswan on SPARC64.  Hopefully the ipsec implementation that's going in
> > to Linux 2.6 will give better results.
> >
> > I don't remember the details of the freeswan problem, but it has
> > something to do with the way ioctls are implemented on sparc64.  There's
> > some kind of translation or something that goes on in kernel space.  But
> > that's only what I can recall from my vague memories of hearing it
> > explained; I've never actually looked at the code, and don't know my way
> > around the kernel source well enough to know where to look.
> >
> > noah