ipsec on FC2

[Antonio José Espinoza Palenque]

Carlos Villegas wrote:

>I'm relatively uninformed on the ipsec support for the 2.6
>kernel, my understanding is that the FC2 kernel has a working
>ipsec implementation in it, and all that is needed are the
>userspace tools. I'd like to test that out, but I'm not sure
>where to start with this, so here are my questions:
>
>1. Is the ipsec support already compiled in or do I need to apply
>some patches to the kernel to get the support? If so which
>patches? I know freeswan is going away, and I've heard
>that the 2.6 kernel has kame, but haven't seen the patches for
>linux in kame's website.
>
>2. If all that's needed are the userspace tools, which are those
>tools (packages)? Will they be included in FC2 (are they present in
>FC2t2)?
>
>RTFM's welcome, especialy if they come with a URL or some other
>reference :)
>
>Carlos
>
>
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Carlos:

    The kernel 2.6.x has an IPSEC implementation already... you don't 
have to pacth anything... for more information about the userspace tools 
and some other things check www.ipsec-howto.org

Antonio Espinoza