Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:07:07 -0400 From: Randall Stewart <rrs@cisco.com> To: gnn@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAST_IPSEC is now IPSEC, please be advised... Message-ID: <468A661B.6050106@cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <m24pkliso6.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> References: <m24pkliso6.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>
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Great work George.. :-D R gnn@freebsd.org wrote: > Hi, > > My most recent check-in moves FreeBSD HEAD, soon to be 7.0 into the > post Kame era. What was once FAST_IPSEC has been made into IPSEC and > the Kame IPsec code has been removed from the tree. We will continue > to use and update the Kame IPv6 code but of course there will be no > more drops of code from the Kame project as it ended a year ago. > > Some things about the new IPsec: > > 1) Hardware Offload Support > > Support for several vendors hardware accelerators is available by > using the new IPsec code. > > 2) Fine Grained Locking (SMP) > > One of the major reasons to move to the new codebase and to deprecate > the Kame code was that we needed an IPsec stack that was locked for > our SMP kernel architecture. > > 3) Full IPv6 Support > > One of the missing features of the old FAST_IPSEC code was IPv6 > support. IPv6 is now fully supported. > > > The code has been tested in my lab using both home grown tests and the > TAHI test suite (http://www.tahi.org) as well by some FreeBSD > Developers, notably Bjoern Zeeb, who is also responsible for the user > land fixes, as well as numerous patches to the kernel. > > Please forward problems, and patches to me, or this list. > > Best, > George > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Randall Stewart NSSTG - Cisco Systems Inc. 803-345-0369 <or> 803-317-4952 (cell)
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