[Openswan Users] Bug 1021 Workaround ? O2.6.21+K2.6.25+NAT-T

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 8 May 2009, Samuel Forms wrote:

>>> - Openswan 2.6.21
>>> - with patches from ftp://ftp.openswan.org/openswan/testing/nat-t/
>>> - vanilla Kernel 2.6.25 (User Mode Linux, not a real machine)
>
>> You might want to try the git version, and see if that resolves your issue.
>
> 1) There are nat-t, ng-patch, and patches directories.
> I suppose that nat-t is obsolete and suitable for "old" kernels (old-style
> nat through make nattpatch)
> But what do we do with ng-patch and patches ? what are these dirs ? must
> the kernel be patched (ng-patch looks like a /kernel/ patch, and
> README/INSTALL are obsolete) ?

You need NONE of the patches.

> Do I use ftp://ftp.openswan.org/openswan/testing/nat-t/ like I did on
> openswan-2.6.21 ?

No.

> 2) git creates a 63 Mo openswan dir (mostly because of .git and testing
> dirs) !  can I just download 2.6.22dr1.tar.gz ?

Yes you can.

Paul