Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:20:15 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com> To: Remington <JesusOnCrack@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Stupid newbie Question - IPSEC? Message-ID: <20020329172015.79382.qmail@web11708.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <000301c1d742$b8f398b0$b1038bd8@winxpp>
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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)" > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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