[Openswan dev] Debian package of Openswan

Nate Carlson natecars at natecarlson.com
Tue Mar 2 16:44:14 CET 2004


On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Paul Wouters wrote:
> It should. Since the changes are in udp.c, just like the original nat-t
> patch. If you look at the code, it looks so vastly similar, you wonder
> why the first patch was never accepted by the kernel people to begin
> with.
> 
> So yes, when openswan-2 userland has integrated the latest nat-t stuff,
> all the issues regarding kernel recompiles for NAT-T should be a thing
> of the past.

Rock on! :)

Would it be reasonable to replace the current patch included with the
NAT-T code for 2.4 with the backported UDP_ENCAPS code then, so that the
implementation is the same on either kernel version? Or is the just
unnecessary work?

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