[Openswan Users] iptables and ipsec

[Paul Wouters]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Andreas Stallmann wrote:

>
> Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
> > ...  if you are patching, get also the "recent" module. Look
> > to the iptables patch page for more. Cool stuff!
> > SuSE has a lot already compiled in.
>
> Well... unfortunately, I'm forced to use Gentoo. And thus the next question is
> gentoo related:
>
> How the f*** can I use patch-o-matic-ng with gentoo? Perfectly understandable,
> the netfilter extensions howto[1] does only cover patching the native iptables
> (and kernel) source, something I don't like to to, mainly because I'm affraid
> the next "emerge" might destroy my changes.

I believe it is in 2.6.15rc1 already.

> PS: Somtimes I wish stuff in IT would simply f***in' WORK! You think something
> might take you 3 hours, and then you look back after 3 weeks and see what you
> have accomplished: Nothing. *sigh* Why didn't I learn any sensible profession.
> Like butcher. Or teacher. Or did you ever hear of a pig that's not compatible
> with a butchers knife?

It's the same. The conveyer belt with to be slaughtered pigs goes just slow enough
to let you do your work, and not too slow that you have time to think what you
are doing. It's just *another* rat race :)

Paul
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