Re: Freeswan and kernel 2.4.27

[Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net>]

On Fri, 20 May 2005 11:21:30 +0200
Mirko Parthey <mirko.parthey@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:

> 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.

I had read that Debian kernels included a backport of IPsec from 2.6 and
originally tried setting up freeswan without it. However, "ipsec barf"
reports that there is no kernel support present.

Thanks,
Jacob