[Openswan Users] ipsec0 and kernel 2.6

[Mark-Andre Hopf]

On Mon 28.06. 13:50, Graham Leggett wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I notice that when I start openswan under RHEL3's v2.4 kernel that has 
> v2.6 bits backported, no ipsec0 interface appears under ifconfig.
> 
> No error messages are reported saying that "due to error XXX, ipsec0 not 
> created", and when openswan is started and stopped, messages are logged 
> to say that interface eth0/eth0 has been shut down (normally it says 
> ipsec0/eth0 is shut down).
> 
> Is this an error condition, or just normal openswan behaviour?

This is normal behaviour for the Linux 2.6 IPsec stack.

Mark

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