[Openswan Users] Compression with Linux kernel 2.6

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 12 May 2005, Herbert Xu wrote:

>> This information was pulled from:
>> http://www.openswan.org/docs/local/README.Kernel26

I will look into updating this.

>> * compression seems to be incompatible between KLIPS and the 2.6 ipsec
>> code. Since we believe the 2.6 ipsec code is wrong, we cannot fix this.

> Just ignore it, it's totally wrong.

Not entirely. For instance, 2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp still seems to have
bad backported NETKEY code biting users. People running RHEL should add
compress=no to their conns.

Paul