[Openswan Users] Openswan isntallation

[Ondrej Valousek]

I do not want to be rude or anything but: RTFM  :-)
Ondrej

Zaeem Sherazi wrote:
> Dear Paul,
>
> Thanks a lot for your advice. Now I am going with Openswan without 
> KLIPS. I just few question as I am starting work on Openswan. My 
> questions are.
>
> 1. What type of client is used to connect to the openswan server?
> 2. Do we have that client built into Windows and Linux?
>
> I will be really thankful if you or someone else can give answer of my 
> above questions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Zaeem
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:02:04 -0500
> > From: paul at xelerance.com
> > To: zaeemabbas at hotmail.com
> > CC: webserv at s3group.cz; users at openswan.org
> > Subject: RE: [Openswan Users] Openswan isntallation
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Zaeem Sherazi wrote:
> >
> > > Regarding your question about KLIPS (Kernal Layer IP Security) is
> > > concerned I am not very much clear that it is required or not but 
> I need
> > > some NAT traversal. So as per my Google search it seems that KLIPS is
> > > required.
> >
> > As explained by others, that is not needed. NETKEY will work fine 
> for you.
> >
> > > You also wrote that "<The current release does not compile on 2.6.18
> > > based kernels (rhel/centos)>" Can you please let me know then what
> > > version of Openswan should I try with My centOS 5.3 (Kernel: 
> 2.6.18-128)?
> >
> > KLIPS requires a newer kernel. The userland, the only part you need,
> > compiles independantly of the kernel and will work on all systems that
> > either have netkey or klips. So some 2.4.x kernels and all 2.6.x 
> kernels.
> >
> > Paul
>
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