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Re: IPSec Question

>I noticed on NetBSD.org that IPsec support is built in since 1999 but you
>must rebuild the kernel to use it. I poked around under the kernel framework
>of Mac OS X and found a header file related directly to IPSec along with
>several other header files that are related to the way IPSec is implemented
>on NetBSD. Darwin is based on NetBSD so this makes sense.
>
>I know that there are plenty of people out there looking for a IPSec support
>for Mac OS X. At least I know I am chopping at the bit for it!
>
>I am not a Unix guru but am learning (slowly) SO I was wondering if anyone
>out there, that really has a good grasp of BSD networking, has rebuilt
>Darwin/Mac OS X with IPSec turned on in the kernel and been able to get
>IPSec tunneling to work?

if you apply the following patch to Darwin kernel source (xnu)
Apple-201-15 tag, kernel portion will become ready for IPsec.
ftp://ftp.itojun.org/pub/misc/darwin-v6-patch.Apple-201-15.diff

there are problems in compiling userland tools (like setkey(8) for
setting up ipsec secrets) so it is still useless...

itojun
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 >IPSec Question (From: Guy Gardner <email@hidden>)



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