Re: bounce....

[Christopher Nicholls <chrisn () softway com au>]

At 12:43 26/01/98 -0500, James Croall wrote:
> > > BTW i know some people who run Gauntlet on free unices ({Free|Open|Net}BSD,
> > > can't remember which ones) and so cut off the O/S cost.. They can't use
> > > the features provided by kernel patches but they say they do not need it.
>
> > Not possible. Gauntlet requires kernel changes that haven't been ported
> > to any of the operating systems you mention.
>
> I'm not too familiar with the kernel changes in the Gauntlet kernel, but
> as far as I can tell it uses swIPe to provide the VPN support. swIPe has
> been ported to NetBSD and FreeBSD, and could be ported to some of the
> other BSD unices out there. Of course, you can always drop in your
> favourite IPsec implementation and have even stronger encryption.

As a matter of interest to you and others, swIPe has been ported to BSD 2.1
for an Australian implementation of Gauntlet.

Regards

Christopher
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