[Openswan Users] Openswan 2.1.1 on Debian

[Nate Carlson]

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Aaron Wirtz wrote:
> Just wanted to drop a note to the mailing list so others don't run into
> the same problem I did.
> 
> The debian 2.4.26 kernel source (and possibly others) contain backported
> IPSEC code from the 2.6 series.  There does exist a
> kernel-patch-openswan package from debian that can be applied to the
> debian 2.4 source, but it is overridden by the 2.6 IPSEC code that is
> already in the debian kernel source, so it is useless for recent debian
> kernels.

It is actually supposed to be possible to build KLIPS on 2.4 kernels with 
the backported code, and it'll be preferred (the startup scripts try to 
load ipsec.o before the in-kernel code.) I haven't tried it yet, though.

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