[Openswan Users] failure to shut down ipsec

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Wed Apr 22 11:04:24 EDT 2009


On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Jon James wrote:

> When I use the 'ip xfrm pol' and 'ip xfrm state' command it shows nothing.
> When I use lsmod|grep esp4 it shows

Good that means it does clear out the SA's.

> Esp4			7873   1

And the module is not used by other modules. Odd it is "busy".
I take it that is a (harmless) bug that will go away in the next
kernel version then.

> When I attempt to shut down the module
> Modprobe -r esp4
> it says
> FATAL: Module esp4 in use

I am not sure why, but it is a kernel bug.

Paul


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