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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:36:19 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        Massimo Lusetti <massimo@cedoc.mo.it>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: KAME/Fast IPSEC (was Re: netatm: plan for removal unless an active maintainer is found)
Message-ID:  <20060316082738.W2181@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
In-Reply-To: <1142496340.4311.12.camel@massimo.datacode.it>
References:  <20060315004530.B5861@fledge.watson.org> <20060314.204252.74651890.imp@bsdimp.com> <20060315105031.E5861@fledge.watson.org> <20060315215915.GB16188@garage.freebsd.pl> <1142496340.4311.12.camel@massimo.datacode.it>

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On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Massimo Lusetti wrote:

Hi,

> On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 22:59 +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>
>> Let me add my two cents. There are actually two things to do with KAME
>> IPsec: MPSAFE and crypto(9) support and only one thing (IPv6) in case of
>> fast_ipsec(4), so I think it will be much easier to add IPv6 support to
>> fast_ipsec(4) and just drop KAME IPsec, so we can have one, full
>> functional IPsec stack.
>>
>> This is really confusing for the users. When I first heard of
>> fast_ipsec(4) I thought it only works with crypto HW and if I need to do
>> cryptography in software I need KAME IPsec.
>>
>> But that's just an opinion of a passive observer:)
>
> I also would like to see more clearness on this, Pawel is right saying
> it's a confusing situation.

with hopefully enough time this problem will be solved during
the year. This will also need some netinet6 work,...

What you can find at
 	http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/ipv6/
is far from being complete or fully up-to-date but it's a start...

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT



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