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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 2002 10:37:22 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kame ipsec vs. openbsd ipsec
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204031036550.26496-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <2c1d01c1db3b$460c7720$52557f42@errno.com>

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have you asked the KAME people if they have plans to 
do such suppport themselves?


On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Sam Leffler wrote:

> I'm slogging through the KAME IPsec code looking at adding support for
> crypto hardware (and NICs that do onboard IPSEC processing).  The OpenBSD
> IPsec implementation already has this and doing something similar to what
> OpenBSD has done requires restructuring large parts of the KAME code in a
> similar way.  (It's also likely to have repercussions throughout the rest of
> the inet code.) So it seems I can either muck with the KAME code or
> integrate the OpenBSD code instead. Both options are a lot of work so I
> thought I'd solicit some feedback first.
> 
> 1. Has anyone else seriously looked at doing this?
> 2. Has anyone compared the OpenBSD and KAME implementations and understand
> their relative strengths? (e.g. is there some reason to work with KAME other
> than it's already in the system)
> 
> I found an old port of the OpenBSD code to FreeBSD but that was abandoned.
> 
>     Sam
> 
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