On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 10:57 +0900, David Smith wrote: > Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 20:19 +0900, David Smith wrote: > >> Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > OoO En cette aube naissante du dimanche 25 mai 2008, vers 07:10, David > >> > Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > >> > > >> >> Vincent, in your setup is there a strong reason you are using openswan > >> >> instead of strongswan? Please share. > >> > > >> > Hi David! > >> > > >> > I have not tried StrongSWAN, so I have no reason to use OpenSWAN instead > >> > of StrongSWAN. > >> > >> OK, could you please double-check that your configuration works with > >> strongswan as well as openswan? I want to propose that we focus on one > >> IKE implementation and considering the features available in strongswan, > >> that it works with the most server implementations especially Windows > >> 2003 and 2008 Server and that it supports smartcards the best make it a > >> lead contender. Dan, what do you think of deciding on an IKE? Something > >> like a bake-off? > > > > It mostly depends on what the various distros will be willing to > > package. I don't have a strong preference since I know next to nothing > > about either of them. But if we "bless" one then we have to have a > > pretty convincing story as to why we chose one over the other, so that > > we can tell that story to distros when they start asking why they need > > to package something else that has roughly the same functionality as > > something they already have. > > > > Is strongswan a fork of openswan? If so, was openswan upstream > > reluctant to take certain patches and thus the strongswan fork? > > There is a lot of material about strongswan and openswan's development > history in http://www.strongswan.org/docs/LinuxTag2008-strongSwan.pdf > . Even a nice tree of the forks. > > It seems that strongswan and openswan both split away from frees/wan for > different reasons: openswan was the branch that Xelerance developed for > their commercial network services and strongswan was community developed > to keep making a better linux IKEv1 and then v2 implementation. > > > Is there an intention to merge strongswan back into openswan in the > > future? That sort of thing. Unfortunately the politics matter to > > distros... > > Nobody on either list has hinted at anything like that, though > anything's possible.
If they can co-exist then we're probably OK, I guess. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
