[strongSwan] strongswan + redhat

[Vinod Sasi]

Hello Andreas,

Thanks for the clarification. I tried upgrading my kernel from 2.6.9
to 2.6.38 (latest stable from kernel.org) by building my own bzImage,
updating the system.map & grub Conf.

Eventually on reboot the kernel panicked & I could not bring it up.I
feel it is too much a distance to upgrade this kernel. What do you
think?

I would really like your help though this is seriously off topic.

Thanks in advance,
Vinod

On 3/17/11, Andreas Steffen <andreas.steffen at strongswan.org> wrote:
> 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
>
> ======================================================================
> Andreas Steffen                         andreas.steffen at strongswan.org
> strongSwan - the Linux VPN Solution!                www.strongswan.org
> Institute for Internet Technologies and Applications
> University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil
> CH-8640 Rapperswil (Switzerland)
> ===========================================================[ITA-HSR]==
>