[Openswan Users] compression

Andy Gay andy at andynet.net
Thu Aug 10 21:44:40 EDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 17:01 +0200, Marek Greško wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> sometimes I implemented IPsec tunnels using openswan/netkey - in the linux 
> 2.6.8 era there was a known bug in the compression functionality. I have 
> still compression disabled. Is it safe to enable compression using 
> openswan/netkey in linux 2.6.17 kernels?

Are you referring to this thread? -
http://lists.openswan.org/pipermail/users/2004-September/002163.html

That was surely fixed a long time ago.

I'm using ipcomp/netkey without problems for lots of connections, using
various kernels from 2.6.11 up to 2.6.17.


> 
> Thank you
> 
> -- 
> Marek Greško
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