Re: Freeswan and kernel 2.4.27
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 06:21:22PM -0500, Jacob S wrote:
> Is anyone using Freeswan with a 2.4.27 kernel? If not, what 2.4 kernel
> are people using?
>
> I've been trying to patch kernel-source-2.4.27 using
> kernel-patch-freeswan and freeswan-modules-source, but keep failing
> while applying the patches. I'm using the provided debian/rules in
> freeswan-modules-source and make-kpkg --added-patches=freeswan for
> kernel-patch-freeswan. I'm doing a make clean and untarring a
> clean copy of kernel-source-2.4.27.tar.bz2 between attempts, but can't
> get either patch to work. And I know I only need one of those patches to
> work - that's all I'm trying for, but they both fail on me.
The Debian kernel is already patched to include a backport of the IPsec
implementation from Linux 2.6. Although I havent't tried this myself,
I would expect this to be the reason why you were not able to apply the
freeswan patch.
Your choices are probably:
- use the Linux 2.6 IPsec, either in 2.4 (backported) or 2.6;
no further patches need to be applied to the kernel,
the userspace applications are a different story (ask again if you
need help there)
- download a vanilla kernel from kernel.org and apply the freeswan
patch, or any of the derivatives which are still maintained (openswan
or strongswan, last time I checked)
I hope this helps,
Mirko
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