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Re: sparc64 and ipsec anyone?



On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:44:06PM -0800, Patrick Morris wrote:
> In my experience, it's been unusable on anything big-endian.

Nah many people use freeswan on sparc/alpha/PPC ... 
--
Paul
> 
> 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
> >>
> >
> >
> 
> 
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