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Date:      Fri, 3 Aug 2001 19:10:26 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Glen Gross <ggross@symark.com>
Cc:        "'Sheldon Hearn'" <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Brad Huntting <huntting@glarp.com>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org>, "kris@obsecurity.org" <kris@obsecurity.org>, "freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: !RE: IPSEC/IPSEC_ESP module(s)
Message-ID:  <20010803191026.A12509@citusc17.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01C11C0F.5FFB33B0.ggross@symark.com>; from ggross@symark.com on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:28:09AM -0700
References:  <01C11C0F.5FFB33B0.ggross@symark.com>

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On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:28:09AM -0700, Glen Gross wrote:
> This gives me the opportunity to ask a question I have been wondering for=
 a=20
> while... I've been building kernels with IPSEC support
> and was unclear what kind of load this puts on the system by default.  If=
 IPSEC=20
> has hooks into all the networking code, does this
> become an issue on slow or otherwise heavily loaded hardware?  Currently =
I am=20
I wouldn't expect it to be a significant issue.

> The reason this comes up for me is that someone from SSH Communications=
=20
> recently told me that "IPSEC supports IPv6."  Does this mean
> that if I enable IPSEC in the kernel, I should also make sure to enable t=
he=20
> IPv6 code?  I would deeply appreciate it
> if someone could shed some light on this subject for me.

IPSEC supports IPv4 as well :-) The comment just means that it works
with both.

Kris

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