On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Mike Noyes wrote:

> Everyone,
> Here is some relevant news. Can someone take a look at packaging KAME?
>
> http://www.freeswan.org/ending_letter.html
>         After more than five years of active development, the FreeS/WAN
>         project will be coming to an end.
>
> KAME Project
> http://www.kame.net/
>

I fear that Linux IPSEC support is in chaos. The move to support OE in the
way advocated by the FreeeS/Wan project resulted in an absurd gateway
routing table and rendered Proxy ARP incompatible with FreeS/Wan.

The 2.6 kernel implementation of IPSEC threw out the baby with the
bath water.

- Netfilter is totally broken with respect to IPSEC.
- While it makes OE work reasonably, it makes IPSEC tunneling totally
different from any other Linux-based tunnel.

While there is work going on in the Netfilter project to correct the first
problem, the second seems to be here to stay.

As things currently stand, Shorewall will have minimal support for IPSEC
tunnels under the 2.6 kernels.

-Tom
--
Tom Eastep    \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool
Shoreline,     \ http://shorewall.net
Washington USA  \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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