Re: about the ipsec stack

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:20:14PM -0400, Antonio José Espinoza Palenque wrote:

> I'm used freeswan for ipsec/x509 vpns and worked well, however, there is 
> a new ipsec implementation in the kernel 2.6...and... I'd like to know 
> if the current kernel ipsec stack is freeswan, was ported from some *nix 
> or is a completely new unprobed implementation.
> 
> I need to know it because I love linux but I want to be sure about the 
> performance of the new ipsec stack.

The 2.6 IPSEC stack is similar to the *BSD KAME IPSEC stack.  And the
Linux ipsec-tools is a port of the KAME tools.

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