[CentOS] Openswan 2.4.6rc5 under CentOS 4.3

Thu Aug 17 02:35:00 UTC 2006
Bas Rijniersce <bas at brijn.nu>

Hi,

> > I'm trying to get Openswan running in a CentOS 4.3 
> environment. I want 
> > to modify as little as possible so that the machine can be 
> kept up to 
> > date easily. I'd rather not compile a special kernel, but if that's 
> > the only solution, no problem (I don't need NAT traversal).
 
> Hm, not really answer to your question...  But what about 
> native IPSec that is already built into the kernel?  It's not 
> perfect (there are some problems with Netfilter and IPSec 
> interacting), but it works for many folks out there.  It's 
> easy to setup by hand, or you could use system-config-network too.

Not having an ipsec interface caused me quite a bit of trouble before. So I
really want KLIPS.
 
> It could also be that OpenSwan and native IPSec are clashing...

There is no modules loaded, but who knows. I'm now compiling a custom
kernel.. It seems I'll have to live with that.

Bas