> I am attempting to create a Bering image with the following qualities: > > 1) boots from 4 MB compact flash connected to ide controller on Soekris net4501 (www.soekris.com) > 2) supports the National Semiconductor ethernet devices on the Soekris net4501 > 3) has console on serial port > 4) has ipsec support > > My question is this: in order to accomplish 3 and 4, I had to compile a new kernel. I did this by acquiring the bering-beta4 config file, applying the freeswan patches to a 2.4.17 source tree, and making the kernel and modules on a Debian Woody box. Is this allowed? Do I have to compile my kernel and modules on a Slink box as well as the binaries? >JN: Partly yes. The ipsec patched kernel must be compiled with Debian Woody (or better). You cannot compile a 2.4.X kernel with slink. But the ipsec programs (in pluto dir from what I remember out of my head must be compiled in debian slink since they are going to be linked against glibc 2.0). I did a try very quickly a couple of days ago and run into header problems and __bzero undefined stuff that I did not investigate further. I am planning to work on an ipsec version of Bering in the weeks to come. I did not have the time yet and will probably need some help from Charles who our ipsec gourou :-)
> The kernel boots fine with serial support and all, ipsec and natsemi modules seems to work fine, but eventually, I get a kernel panic. When I try to ping machines connected to either interface, I get nothing but transmit timeouts and it seems to accelerate the process. the output of ifconfig for that interface shows: > > TX packets:3 errors:9 dropped:0 overruns:3 carrier:3 > Collisions:0 > I have only one advice to make at this stage: first have bering working with everything but ipsec. then move on to try to include ipsec. If you succeed I'll be definitively interested. Are you using the latest 1.96 version of the freeswan code ? Jacques -------------- Profitez de l'offre sp�ciale Tiscali Liberty Surf ! 50% de temps en plus pendant 3 mois sur tous les forfaits Internet. http://register.libertysurf.fr/subscribe_fr/signup.php3 _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
