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
> 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
> has hooks into all the networking code, does this
> become an issue on slow or otherwise heavily loaded hardware? Currently I am
I wouldn't expect it to be a significant issue.
> The reason this comes up for me is that someone from SSH Communications
> 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 the
> 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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