[Openswan Users] acquire-netlink

[Norbert Wegener]

On a gateway with kernel 2.6.11 and openswan 2.4.0dr8
ipsec auto --status shows lots of entries like:
000 1.2.3.4/32:0 -17-> 62.180.184.5/32:0 => %hold 0    %acquire-netlink
000 1.2.3.4/32:0 -17-> 213.23.192.58/32:0 => %hold 0    %acquire-netlink
000 1.2.3.4/32:0 -17-> 213.23.192.58/32:0 => %hold 0    %acquire-netlink
000 1.2.3.4/32:0 -17-> 10.176.0.198/32:0 => %hold 0    %acquire-netlink
000 1.2.3.4/32:0 -17-> 10.176.0.198/32:0 => %hold 0    %acquire-netlink
000 1.2.3.4/32:0 -17-> 10.176.0.198/32:0 => %hold 0    %acquire-netlink
000 1.2.3.4/32:0 -17-> 10.176.0.198/32:0 => %hold 0    %acquire-netlink
000 1.2.3.4/32:0 -17-> 84.130.207.26/32:0 => %hold 0    %acquire-netlink
000 1.2.3.4/32:0 -17-> 84.174.223.117/32:0 => %hold 0    %acquire-netlink
000 1.2.3.4/32:0 -17-> 84.152.178.214/32:0 => %hold 0    %acquire-netlink

What do those entries mean?
Is there anything to be done, when there are lots of those entries?
Norbert