[Openswan Users] xfrm4_tunnel

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Thu Jan 6 23:51:58 CET 2005


On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Jason Sigurdur wrote:

> Hi, Under Fedora Core 2 '2.6.9-1.6_FC2' I was having utilization issues with
> 'pluto' and none of the tunnels coming up using 'compression'.
> After loading the xfm4_tunnel module everything seems to be working fine.
> What/how does xfm4_tunnel do?

Its a "Generic IP tunnel transformer" and neccessary for the ipcomp transform.
Later versions of openswan modprobe this along with other modules when NETKEY
is used.

Paul
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