[Openswan Users] how to configure ah

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, rama reddy wrote:

> how to configure openswan 2.3.0 version connection between two gateways using 
> AH only.
> i tried according to usual procedure by entering connction details in ipsec 
> .conf.
> but i am getting pf_key  write error.

Please show the log entries.

> please mail if anybody has solution for this problem.

You should ofcourse not be using AH to begin with. Do you really trust
the encryption layer of whatever hardware on top of your connection? I
would guess you're likely now trusting WPA or WEP, which is bad.
For a modern PC, the overhead of using esp= is minimal.

Paul
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