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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:20:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Stupid newbie Question - IPSEC?
To: Remington <JesusOnCrack@hotmail.com>,
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IPSEC is a standard for encrypted communications, e.g. VPN.
You would need another IPSEC enabled host to connect to for
it to be relevant. 

Nitty-gritty details:
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ipsec-charter.html

You probably don't need INET(6), but it doesn't hurt to
leave it there either. I find that when I take things out
of the kernel, I usually miss them later...

--TIm

--- Remington <JesusOnCrack@hotmail.com> wrote:
> First off what is IPSEC? And if I compiled it into my
> kernel where would
> I find tutorials on setting it up.
>  
> And for a desktop BSD machine, no server, would it affect
> my system in
> any way if I took out "options     INET(6)"
> 


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