[Openswan Users] ipsec0 and kernel 2.6

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Mon Jun 28 22:02:04 CEST 2004


On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Graham Leggett wrote:

> 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.

that is correct. KLIPS provides the ipsec interfaces. The 2.6 native IPsec
stack, or its backport, do not support virtual interfaces. 

> Is this an error condition, or just normal openswan behaviour?

It is not an error. It is normal behaviour under that kernel stack.

Paul 
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