[Openswan Users] install openswan with 2.6 vanilla

[Rolf Offermanns]

Davide Giunchi wrote:
> I'm trying to install openswan on a debian sarge with 2.6.9 but i can't
> find any valuable documentation about how to compile the kernel.
> 
> As openswan has been removed from sarge (i don't know why) i've compiled
> openswan-2.2.0 with
> make programs
> make install
> 
> then when i try to run /etc/init.d/ipsec start i get:
> 
> ipsec_setup: Starting Openswan IPsec 2.2.0...
> ipsec_setup: insmod: can't read 'ipsec': No such file or directory
> ipsec_setup: FATAL: Module af_key not found.
> ipsec_setup: calcgoo: warning: 2.6 kernel with kallsyms not supported
> yet
> ipsec_setup: FATAL: Module ipsec not found.
> ipsec_setup: kernel appears to lack KLIPS
> 
You can ignore most of this. However you seem to miss PF_KEY support.
Enable it in kernel configuration:
Device drivers->Network support->Networking options->PF_KEY sockets (CONFIG_NET_KEY)

-Rolf
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