[strongSwan] strongswan + redhat

[Andreas Steffen]

Hello Vinod,

strongSwan should run under RHEL. The problem is your rather
old Linx 2.6.9 kernel which does not support AES-GCM (introduced
with 2.6.27 ?) nor AES-GMAC (introduced with 2.6.34).

Regards

Andreas

On 17.03.2011 12:27, Vinod Sasi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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.
> 
> I have a Linux Server running RHEL. Does Strongswan officially support
> RHEL?
> 
> Below is my configuration:
> 
> [root at localhost /]# uname -a
> 
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-22.EL #1 Mon Sep 19 18:20:28 EDT2005
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> [root at localhost /]# cat /proc/version
> 
> Linux version 2.6.9-22.EL (bhcompile at porky.build.redhat.com
> <mailto:bhcompile at porky.build.redhat.com>) (gcc version 3.4.4 20050721
> (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Mon Sep 19 18:20:28 EDT2005
> 
> [root at localhost /]# cat /etc/issue
> 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 2)
> 
> Kernel \r on an \m
> 
> [root at localhost /]#
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Vinod

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Andreas Steffen                         andreas.steffen at strongswan.org
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Institute for Internet Technologies and Applications
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