Alfred Perlstein wrote:
Matthew, can you provide links to the patches and surrounding
discussion. It may just be a matter of integration manpower...
Here is a link to the 6.x patch set. I'm not sure where the most recent
patches are for head. Yvan will probably be willing to point us in the
right direction.
http://ipsec-tools.sf.net/freebsd6-natt.diff
As for the surrounding discussion, I haven't seen anything recently
about why the changes haven't been integrated. I was hoping my post
would seed a new discussion regarding this.
Here is a link to a few older threads regarding patents and fast-ipsec
support.
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-net/2005-August/007986.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-net/2006-March/010164.html
* Matthew Grooms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070511 08:08] wrote:
All,
I understand that FreeBSD is a volunteer project, but does anyone
have any information regarding the status of the IPsec NAT Traversal
patches and their inclusion with FeeBSD? I have seen them floating
around this list for a few years now. At one point, there was an
objection that concerned a possible legal issue related to patents. This
can't be too much of a road block as Linux, OpenBSD and NetBSD all
include support for NATT in official stable kernel sources. Fedora Core
6 even has the feature enabled by default in the generic kernel. Another
objection I have seen was related to the patch only offering support for
the KAME stack. But the most recent patch set also offers support for
the Fast IPsec stack as well.
Is the patch lacking sponsorship by a FreeBSD developer sponsor
since the author does not have commit access? Maybe a developer looking
at the patch is just short on time at the moment? If so, is there
another developer that could maybe help out? Is there a technical reason
why the patches have not been committed? If so, I don't think the
author is aware so a little communication is required?
Lastly, is there anything the community can do to help out? Maybe
donating to a FreeBSD Foundation project that sponsors IPsec related
work?
Thanks,
-Matthew
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