[Openswan Users] Which Free or OpenSWAN on Debian testing (2.6.3 kernel)?

[Paul Wouters]

On Sun, 2 May 2004, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:

> I want to run OpenSWAN of FreeSWAN on a Debian 2.6.3-1 testing kernel. 
> 
> The README doc supplied with OpenSWAN 2.1.2 rc3 says only to use kernel 2.6.4 and above. Allthough my system does not crash, it does not give me tunnels either.
> 
> Is it possible to use OpenSWAN or should I use the FreeSWAN (2.04 or 1.96??) that is in the testing branch?

The text of the README is perhaps somewhat badly phrased. It meant to say to use 2.6.4 or higher, if using 2.6.x kernels,
since anything below that crashes the kernel. Ofcourse it also works on 2.4 kernels, if you compile the KLIPS
kernel module ipsec.o.

Paul