Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] StrongSWAN vs OpenSwan

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Thu, September 6, 2007 14:21, Jasper Siepkes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I noted that OpenSwan was recently replaced by StrongSwan. Out of
> curiosity; Why was this ? I saw an other thread on the mailinglist which
> stated that strongswan was built on top of openswan with extra features.
> As far as I know, this is not the case and were both forked from the
> freeswan project (I Could be missing something tough..).
>
> I'm by no means a *Swan expert, but this comparison looks to be leaning
> to Openswan: http://wiki.openswan.org/index.php/Openswan/FeatureComparison
>
>
> Yes its on the openswan page :-) But StrongSwan
> http://www.strongswan.org/ linkes to the feature comparison. I doubt
> they would link to it if they would find it unfair.

Unfortunately OpenSwan 3.0 (which is the base for this comparison) is not
released yet:

Quote from http://www.openswan.org/code/ :
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Openswan 3.0.xx should be consider highly experimental and very unstable.
Do not use it.
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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org