[Openswan dev] 2.1.0rc1 and nat-t patch

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Michael Richardson wrote:

>     Paul> Perhaps Âmake module' could end with a warning about this? eg
> 
>     Paul> "For NAT-T support, rebuilding the kernel is neccessary after
>     Paul> patching it for nat-t support using 'make nattpatch'"
> 
>  Sure go ahead.

Ok.

>     Paul> Though we should make this conditional over detecting nat-t in
>     Paul> the current kernel build, which we should know since we just
>     Paul> compiled a module against it.
> 
>   no, we just compiled a module against some header files.
>   there is no guarantee that the patch is in the kernel that we are
> loaded into!

I said "kernel build", not "running kernel". I fully agree we can't do it
based on the running kernel.

Paul