FAST_IPSEC bug fix

Oldach, Helge Helge.Oldach at atosorigin.com
Sat Apr 24 13:45:34 PDT 2004


> From: Sam Leffler [mailto:sam at errno.com]
> On Apr 24, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > At 12:56 PM 24/04/2004, Sam Leffler wrote:
> >> On Apr 24, 2004, at 9:03 AM, Oldach, Helge wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi list,
> >>>
> >>> this is a month-old mail about the lack of a FAST_IPSEC feature 
> >>> compared to legacy IPSEC. Including a working patch. I haven't 
> >>> seen this being
> >>> committed, or is it? Please also MFC to STABLE.
> >>
> >> The fix was not quite right for -current (where it needs to go in 
> >> first).  I sent out the attached patch for testing but received no 
> >> feedback.  Until I can get it tested and committed to -current it 
> >> won't be MFC'd.
> >
> > We dont run -current here, so I dont have anything to test it on.  
> > Also, due to the bugs in the driver with HiFn 7955, we have had to 
> > abandon FAST_IPSEC :(
> 
> Running FAST IPSEC w/o h/w crypto is still faster than KAME 
> IPsec.  See the results in my BSDCon paper.

Yes, but still the net.key.preferred_oldsa issue hits, which is
what this thread is about. FAST_IPSEC is great, but unfortuantely useless
for me without this...

Sorry for beating this topic again. Unfortunately, like Mike, I don't have a
-current system around. Maybe someone with a -current box can test?

Helge


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