[Openswan Users] Backing out the 2.6ipsec code from the RHELv3 kernel

Dax Kelson dax at gurulabs.com
Sun Jan 4 16:48:47 CET 2004


On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 12:49, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Dax Kelson wrote:
> 
> > Attached is the extracted patch that adds ESP-over-UDP to udp.c. Notice
> > that it also adds HW checksumming for UDP and sendfile() on UDP. 
> 
> Again, you'd want to use the 2.6 backported UDP_ENCAP instead of the ESPinUDP
> stuff, so that you don't need to change the kernel image itself, and can just
> use an additional ipsec.o module.
> 
> Paul 

That would be ideal. I'm sure somebody can pull it off so you can build
a modular Openswan v1.0.0 with the stock, unmodified RHEL kernel. 

My kungfu is not strong, however to do it myself.

This would be good interim solution until Openswan v2.1 comes out.

Dax



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