[Openswan Users] No ipsec0 inteface

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Joost Wolthuis wrote:

> I'm using fedora core1, kernel 2.6.6 and openswan-2.1.2
> 
> At the other end i can see that all traffic is encrypted so the tunnel
> is perfect.
> 
> The only strange thing is that there is no interface ipsec0 but an extra
> route through interface eth2. 

2.6 native stack does not have virtual ipsecX interface support. KLIPS, the
2.4 code that supports virtual interfaces has not yet been ported for use
on 2.6. If you need interfaces to facilitate firewalling, at this moment
your best bet is to fall back to a 2.4 kernel with KLIPS.

Paul