[Openswan dev] ocf debian

David McCullough david_mccullough at mcafee.com
Fri Dec 17 22:56:53 EST 2010


Jivin Harald Jenny lays it down ...
...
> > We could also try and have the initscripts look for OCF hardware and load the
> > right driver. Or just trust the user to specify this in ipsec.conf and load
> > it?
> 
> Hmmm I slowly come to the conclusion that we might remove the cryptoapi and
> internal crypto code in favour of just OCF when this automatically uses the
> cryptoapi code if no crypt-hardware is present...


No,  I would never remove the klips cryptoapi support.  It needs some
cleanups and extra functionality added,  but IMO it must stay.

> > Does the order of loading matter for klips? I don't think so, and I believe you
> > can load/unload any OCF driver while the SA keeps running?
> 
> Oh that would be very cool.

Cheers,
Davidm

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