[Openswan Users] OpenSwan on ubuntu

[Hammad]

Hi Paul,
No its not a custom compiled (by me) in fact I bought VPS and this is the
ubuntu version I got (jaunty 9.0.4).

Hi Mike,

> WARNING: Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-
028stab068.9: No
> such file or directory

I overcame this problem. I 'd    2.6.18-028stab059.6   directory in place
but not the one mentioned in error; I created a soft-link with same name
pointing to actual dir and installation succeeded well ;)


So our problem is again back to original, ipsec is not supported by
kernel...

> Are you currently actively running and OpenVZ kernel on that machine?

I suppose yes this VPS is using OpenVZ.

> What version are you at?  From there site, it looks like 028stab070.14
> is the latest in the RHEL/CentOS stable 2.6.18 line.

# uname -a
Linux vps.flexilogix.com 2.6.18-028stab068.9 #1 SMP Tue Mar 30 17:22:31 MSD
2010 i686 GNU/Linux

> You must have built that Openswan 2.6.31 package yourself, the latest
> RHEL/CentOS 5.x Openswan is 2.6.21.  Did you merely compile it or actually
build your own rpms?

Yes, I actually compiled openswan 2,6,31 from sources

I've come to know from Ubuntu Support groups that there is no ipsec package
for ubuntu jaunty 9.0.4 and its no more updated since Oct 23 2010. So I
suppose its the time to switch back to CentOS that is my actual
playground...

Thanks for your help all.
Hammad ( aka Hammond :) )

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>wrote:

> Paul (and Hammond),
>
> On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 11:49 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Hammad wrote:
> >
> > > Here is the output of commands...
> > > root at vps:/usr/local# modprobe ipsec
> > > WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files
> belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.
> > > FATAL: Module ipsec not found.
> > >
> > > root at vps:/usr/local# modprobe af_key
> > > WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files
> belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.
> > > FATAL: Module af_key not found.
> > >
> > > root at vps:/usr/local# ipsec --version
> > > Linux Openswan U2.6.31/K(no kernel code presently loaded)
> > > See `ipsec --copyright' for copyright information.
>
> > Your kernel has no IPsec support. Perhaps you are missing the right
> modules directory, or support
> > was not compiled on that kernel. Seems like this is a non-distribution,
> custom built kernel?
>
> It doesn't show up in this last message but in an earlier post I saw
> this...
>
> > WARNING: Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-028stab068.9: No
> > such file or directory
>
> That tells me two things.
>
> 1) He's running an OpenVZ kernel.  That's one of their revision strings
> and that's one of their releases for the RHEL distro.  Not too terribly
> old but back several clicks.
>
> 2) He was, at that time, running on a kernel which had been updated
> (possibly by a mainline distro kernel or possibly by a newer OpenVZ
> kernel) and the running kernel had been uninstalled by yum so the
> modules directory no longer existed.
>
> Now...  That being said...  Prior to swapping all of my OpenVZ VM's (> 3
> dozen) over to LXC to get back on a more current kernel with in-tree
> container virtualization, I was an extensive user of OpenVZ.  Those
> kernels certainly do have IPsec compiled in as modules.  I've used it.
>
> Hammond,
>
> Are you currently actively running and OpenVZ kernel on that machine?
>
> What version are you at?  From there site, it looks like 028stab070.14
> is the latest in the RHEL/CentOS stable 2.6.18 line.
>
> What are you running (uname -a) and what do you have installed?
>
> Did you install it from their site with yum or downloaded it or build a
> custom build (which I often had done with newer releases)?  (One flaw
> with their yum repo is that it doesn't properly setup the install only
> and a couple of other conditions to prevent removing the running
> kernel).
>
> You must have built that Openswan 2.6.31 package yourself, the latest
> RHEL/CentOS 5.x Openswan is 2.6.21.  Did you merely compile it or
> actually build your own rpms?
>
> What's in your grub.conf file and are you running on the latest kernel
> which was installed?
>
> > Paul
>
> Regards,
> Mike
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