[Openswan Users] Kernel Oops and Panic

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Egon Burgener wrote:

> I have tried openswan 2.6.19dr3 and get the same results. I think it has to do
> with the crypto part of the kernel. Do you know if the crypto modules have to
> be built into the kernel? Does openswan use  the kernel cryptographic API?

KLIPS does not use any of the cryptoapi unless you compile specifically
with that option enabled (not the default). 
If you use OCF however, the cryptosoft driver (the software acceleration
driver) does use the kernel crypto modules, and thus is accelerated if
specific crypto accelerator modules are loaded (eg padlock)

Paul