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On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, David G Lawrence wrote:

>> Are you enabling an option, like IPv6, that puts Giant over the network
>> stack?
>
>> From dmesg:
>
> WARNING: debug.mpsafenet forced to 0 as ipsec requires Giant
> WARNING: MPSAFE network stack disabled, expect reduced performance.
>
>   ...the kernel has IPSEC.

If you're not using IPv6 over IPSEC, consider trying FAST_IPSEC isntead.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge