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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Hello,</span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I am new to Strongswan. I am developing an
IPSec conformance tool for GCM/GMAC (RFC 4106, 4543) over IKEv1 which will be
eventually run against my customer device. Since I don’t currently have a
device, I plan to carry out my testing against strongswan.</span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I have a Linux Server running RHEL. Does
Strongswan officially support RHEL? </span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Below is my configuration:</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[root@localhost /]# uname -a</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-22.EL #1 Mon Sep 19 </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>18:20:28 EDT</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> 2005 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[root@localhost /]# cat /proc/version</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Linux version 2.6.9-22.EL (bhcompile@porky.build.redhat.com)
(gcc version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Mon Sep 19 </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>18:20:28 EDT</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> 2005</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[root@localhost /]# cat /etc/issue</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 2)</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Kernel \r on an \m</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[root@localhost /]#</span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Thanks in advance</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Vinod</span></font></p>

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