[Openswan Users] Do I need to patch the kernel to build OCF with Openswan?

[David McCullough]

Jivin Ankit Parikh lays it down ...
> That's where I am stuck.
> 
> I am using RHEL 5(kernel 2.6.18), Openswan (3.0.06).
> 
> I have configured openswan now, but the KLIPS support is pending. I mean, I
> did make KERNELSRC=/lib/modules/'uname -r'/build module minstall  and got
> errors !! So, that portion is remaining.
> 
> So, do I need to apply patches separately, or make programs and make install
> would do it for me?

I can't recall your errors,  but I would look at what "make kpatch"
does. You do need to patch your 2.6 kernel but I am not sure of the
details since I do not use openswan that way, paul or someone in the
know will probably sort you out ;-)

Cheers,
Davidm


> On 7/17/07, David McCullough <David_Mccullough at securecomputing.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >Jivin Ankit Parikh lays it down ...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am using RHEL 5.
> >>
> >> In order to add OCF to openswan, do we need to patch the kernel?
> >>
> >> Because,  the patch is available for version 2.6.11 only and not for
> >> 2.6.18! So, does that mean that I need to recompile ther kernel?
> >>
> >> Hope to hear from you soon. Thank you
> >
> >That depends on what openswan sources you are using.  If you are using
> >openswan 3.0 then the patches should be included.  If you are using the
> >2.4 series with the ocf-linux patches,  then the ocf-linux tarball
> >includes the needed patches (ie., the 2.6.11 patch will apply to 2.6.18
> >without too many problems IIRC),
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Davidm
> >
> >
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> Ankit Parikh
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