Hi there List,

I’ve looked for this information, but I can’t find it.

In essence, what are the advantages to using NETKEY? Since the libreswan folks 
are committed to KLIPS, I’m assuming that KLIPS is considered superior. But why 
do others use NETKEY?

I’ve used *swan since the days where FreeSwan needed to be patched to support 
x509 certs, and after trying out NEKEY for a few weeks in a test setup I found 
the routing/firewall mechanism harder to work with then KLIPS’s explicit ipsecX 
interfaces. But beside this, they seemed functionally similar. How does 
interoperability faire under NETKEY? Are there any known regressions compared 
to KLIPS? Eg. L2TP ontop of NETKEY/IPSec etc.

In essence, I’m wondering if KLIPS will continue to be maintained “forever” or 
is it less pain now to just make the switch?

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