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On 4/29/07, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> > Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:05:27 -0700 > > > However I can suggest vpnc (http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/) > > as an alternative. I'm not forced to use Cisco VPN access any more, > > but when I tried it, vpnc was tons better than the Cisco product. > > Also, and I know this might be a COMPLETE SHOCK to some people, but we > do have a full in-kernel IPSEC stack and using it with openswan to > connect to VPNs works perfectly fine. > > I use it every day. > > It's quite amusing that people use a userland IPSEC implementation > via VPNC, in spite of this. > Have a look here https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/dulug/2007-March/010792.html where someone seems to be in my same boat. No, openswan/IPSEC does not work in all configurations with Cisco VPN concentrators - and by Murphy's law, I'm in the non-working configuration. Hope this clarifies the reason I asked. And if anyone out there is in doubt about it, I absolutely hate having to rebuild an out of kernel module every time I build a kernel, crossing fingers it doesn't break (again). I would use *anything* else. --alessandro "Did you get married but forgot to get divorced ?" (Danny and Dusty, 'The Good Old Days') - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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