Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Freeswan failing to compile correctly?

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On 12/09/2003 07:13:30 PM Martin Glazer wrote:
>> We have anyway the following task outstanding: either move to
>> SuperFreeS/WAN ( http://www.freeswan.ca ) or to FreeS/WAN 2.0x
>> When I asked last time, nobody answered which one is prefered.
>>
>
>I haven't worked with FreeS/WAN 2.0x yet, so I'm unsure of all the
>changes.
>One major difference is the use of a method called OE (Opportunistic
>Encryption), which they are promoting heavily, as a method of
>automagically
>encrypting all traffic between 2 Linux boxes without prearrangement. To
>me,
>the jury is still out on whether this will actually be adopted by any
>other
>vendors, but I may be wrong. I'm also unsure of the state of the ALG
>patches,
>NAT traversal, X509 certs, etc in the official 2 release.
>
>On the otherhand, I have worked quite extensively with SuperFreeS/WAN,
>and so
>I would recommend this be the route to follow. It has all the patches
>currently in DL now as well as a few others. The DL ipsec patchset is
>also
>currently a patch or 2 behind. It looks like SuperFreeS/WAN is also
>working
>on a V2 version, but haven't quite got the official release there yet.

I successfully replaced FreeS/WAN with Super-FreeS/WAN and it compiles just
fine.
I'll check in the updates next week, when I'm back from vacation (probably
Sunday).

Heiko