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Date:      Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:35:27 +0200
From:      Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: enc0 patch for ipsec
Message-ID:  <200606161735.33801.max@love2party.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060615225312.GB64552@heff.fud.org.nz>
References:  <20060615225312.GB64552@heff.fud.org.nz>

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On Friday 16 June 2006 00:53, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> I have a patch attached that implements the much requested feature of
> packet filtering ipsec connections.
>
> This is a device to expose packets going in/out of ipsec and comes
> from OpenBSD. There are two functions, a bpf tap which has a basic
> header with the SPI number which our current tcpdump knows how to
> display, and handoff to pfil(9) for packet filtering.
>
> They way I have hooked it in is compiling it in with fast_ipsec and
> the extra work is only done when the enc0 interface is created. The
> interface is not created by default so its a minimal hit, the user
> will need to 'ifconfig enc0 create' in order to activate it. I
> believe the locking is correct so it can be created and destroyed at
> runtime.

I think it should get a "device enc" on its own.  Some people might conside=
r=20
enc(4) to be a security problem so getting it with FAST_IPSEC automatically=
=20
isn't preferable.

Other than that, great news.  Thanks a lot.

> PRs 98219 and 94829 are requesting this feature.
>
>
>
> Andrew

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