Bug 51851
| Summary: | IPSEC in kernel via FreeS/WAN | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Christopher McCrory <chrismcc> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | roswell | CC: | dkelson, e, gbailey, matt, mb, rhbz |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://www.freeswan.org/ | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-02-11 08:26:30 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Christopher McCrory
2001-08-15 20:39:25 UTC
This would allow my company to save lots of time recompiling kernels. I realize that this will not happen in 7.2 because it is coming out next week, but please consider it for a future version or at the very least release it in the powertools. I would also like FreeSWAN added to Red Hat. I'm implemented CIPE and IPsec with FreeSWAN and I was shocked at the difference in latency. While the IPsec spec is a big nasty 200+ pager, the protocol quick, lean and mean. In my test, no VPN: 59ms latency, IPsec: 65ms latency, CIPE: 85ms latency I could "feel" the difference in my remote interactive shell sessions. IPsec includes compression too, I took all the fortune files (2.5MB of text) and xfered them. No VPN: 98KB/sec, IPSec: 155KB/sec. Finally, if you are going to create a "VPN concentrator", FreeSWAN supports hardware crypto accelerators. And it looks like somebody already did most of the work ... http://www.platypus.bc.ca/~bishop/software/freeswan/ I like the clean way in which he did it, if you do a (xx)diff of the spec files you'll see that he only added some lines and as a result an extra kernel-freeswan-2.4.9-13.i386.rpm is built. It had absolutely no effect on the other kernels being built as far as I could tell. So only people to gain from this .. except maybe the extra burden for RedHat of supporting it ;) Side note: #57462 can be marked as a duplicate of this. *** Bug 57462 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |