Hi KP at 13.07.2014 18:24, kp kirchdoerfer wrote: > Hi Erich; > > Am Sonntag, 13. Juli 2014, 16:38:50 schrieben Sie: >> Hi KP >> >> at 12.07.2014 17:27, kp kirchdoerfer wrote: >>> Hi Erich; >>> >>> Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2014, 01:30:22 schrieben Sie: >>>> Hi KP >>>> >>>> at 08.07.2014 19:33, kp kirchdoerfer wrote: >>>>> Am Montag, 7. Juli 2014, 23:41:52 schrieb Erich Titl: >>>> ... > >>>> Well to tell you the truth, libreswan, as much as I like Paul Wouters, >>>> has this awful NSS restriction, which might be overcome by a really >>>> dedicated optimist. I looked at it and I simply don't even know where >>>> to start with it. Just for compiling it needs its own toolbox (almost >>>> like leaf). >>>> >>>> I like the GNU style, having as little dependencies as possible and the >>>> difficulties in porting applications to the various platforms IMHO stem >>>> to a certain extent from the lack of following those recommendations. I >>>> understand completely that this is a difficult task. >>>> >>>> Well, I am not in the position of working at the libreswan stuff at the >>>> moment because I am on the move most of the time and don't have decent >>>> development tools. If anyone understands how to build NSS on leaf >>>> without twisting his wrist, let me know. Strongswan on the other hand >>>> needs a major rewrite our the 'make' environment. That could be >>>> acomplished.> >>> Sounds all bad... >>> After your investigations - would you prefer libreswan or strongswan? >> >> Depends on the point of view. If one wants to go NSS then libreswan >> would be the candidate. If NSS is not an important issue I would vote >> for Strongswan which is an active project hosted by the people which >> developped the X.509 interface to FreeSwan and have supported IKEv2 for >> a long time. Also they have a very active mailing list. > > I still want you to decide :)
Grrr... well, go for StrongSwan > > I have no objections to either one, and you have the experience using and > bulding *swan. It may take time, right now I am on a 3G connection, eMail is OK but everything else is just slooooooow. .... >> >> Sailing boat, anough worry for anyone :-) she is a Amel Super Maramu. > > Looked at some Google pics - nice and comfortable boat!! > > Where do you plan to sail it? > If you ever reach Kiel let me know and we'll have a dinner and a beer. > Cold... Balearic well I am close to La Rochelle right now, not too warm neither. ... >> >> If I can get my development environment running, I tried with a virtual >> machine running the latest Ubuntu a few months ago but failed, I will >> see if I can work remotely on it, as my onboard PC is much too weak to >> handle it. What is the preferred underlying distro? > > I use kubuntu, but a decent debian, ubuntu or fedora should work as well. Don't have the specifics, but no, ubuntu did not. Some of the worst issues are all that ******g perl packages. > > I hesitate to do this - it's a lot of work and later we need to maintain this > image... Not really IMHO, just keep your personal stuff off this machine and copy the image. Then everybody is talking about the same thing. Provide an updated copy for each major development step. the rest can be done with GIT. > Probably better to document an installation thorougly, which will fit better > and with less work in the future. Dream on. > > As you may have seen,we are in the process to move stuff from SF (esp. > mediawiki) to work around the weaknesses of SF Allura, and it's time > consuming. > All it takes is the right link. cheers Erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
