[Openswan Users] Compression with Linux kernel 2.6

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 12 May 2005, Herbert Xu wrote:

>> 004 "connname" 1: STATE_MAIN_I4: ISAKMP SA established
>> 003 "connname" 0000002: ERROR: netlink_get_spi for comp.0 at 1.2.3.4 failed
>> with errno 22: Invalid argument
>
> This is really old.  I fixed this nearly two years ago :)

Uhm, okay :)

> Any idea why RedHat isn't updating this package or is this one of their
> unsupported product lines?

This is supposed to be there enterprise linux stuff. I don't think RHEL3
should turn EOL in ages. Wasn't that the whole point of EL?

> If we really cared we can work around the problem in Openswan.  It's
> just a matter of detecting the EINVAL return value from get_spi calls
> on IPComp SAs, and then retrying the call with the maxspi's byte order
> swapped.

That would be great actually.

Phillip, could you test such a patch from Herbert for us?

Paul