[Openswan Users] Compression with Linux kernel 2.6

[Phillip T. George]

Paul Wouters wrote:

> 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


I'd love to :) 

-Phillip