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Date:      Thu, 05 Nov 1998 03:29:54 -0500
From:      Craig Metz <cmetz@inner.net>
To:        Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@iijlab.net>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipsec (VPN) for -current ? (Re: VPN through encrypted IP tunnel for FreeBSD? ) 
Message-ID:  <199811051315.NAA21647@inner.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Nov 1998 18:41:48 %2B0900." <22941.910258908@coconut.itojun.org> 

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In message <22941.910258908@coconut.itojun.org>, you write:
>	Pluto was originally written by Angelos Keromytis, and maintained
>	in several places separately.  OpenBSD, NIST (nist.gov), and
>	FreeS/WAN use Pluto-variant IKE daemon.

  If I am not mistaken, Pluto is the ground-up work of the Free S/WAN people
and is GPL. I believe that there is a history of preferring BSD-license to GPL
in FreeBSD if a reasonable BSD-license version is available.

>	There is NO standard IKE codebase, there is NO mature IKE program,
>	IMHO.  Interop test still has big troubles.  I think it is still too
>	early to recommend some IKE daemon over some others.

  Yeah, IKE's a mess right now.

									-Craig

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