Cipe?
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Thu Apr 1 20:56:20 UTC 2004
On Apr 1, 2004, Steve Bergman <steve at rueb.com> wrote:
> 1. Is there anyone else here who would be interested in a cipe
> implementation from fedora.us? Or would I be doing it mainly for
> myself?
I, for one, definitely would. There are application requirements I
have for my home network set up that IPSec doesn't seem to be able to
satisfy.
> 2. Would it just be a matter of maintaining the module(s) as an rpm
> throughout the FC2 life cycle. i.e. I would not have to mess with the
> rest of the kernel?
Maintaining kernel modules outside the kernel RPM is generally a mess,
but it probably can be done with some effort.
> 3. Would someone like me, who has never maintained an rpm package be
> likely to succeed at this and have it accepted at fedora.us? The 2.6
> fedora kernel is not nearly so heavily patched as the old 2.4 kernel
> was, so if someone has already come up with a cipe kernel patch, this
> should mainly be a matter of packaging and maintenance on my part,
> right?
One would hope :-)
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