NAT Traversal Patches ...

[Alfred Perlstein]

Matthew, can you provide links to the patches and surrounding
discussion.  It may just be a matter of integration manpower...

* Matthew Grooms <mgrooms at shrew.net> [070511 08:08] wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
>      I understand that FreeBSD is a volunteer project, but does anyone
> have any information regarding the status of the IPsec NAT Traversal
> patches and their inclusion with FeeBSD? I have seen them floating
> around this list for a few years now. At one point, there was an
> objection that concerned a possible legal issue related to patents. This
> can't be too much of a road block as Linux, OpenBSD and NetBSD all
> include support for NATT in official stable kernel sources. Fedora Core
> 6 even has the feature enabled by default in the generic kernel. Another
> objection I have seen was related to the patch only offering support for
> the KAME stack. But the most recent patch set also offers support for
> the Fast IPsec stack as well.
> 
>      Is the patch lacking sponsorship by a FreeBSD developer sponsor
> since the author does not have commit access? Maybe a developer looking
> at the patch is just short on time at the moment? If so, is there
> another developer that could maybe help out? Is there a technical reason
> why the patches have not been committed? If so, I don't think the
> author is aware so a little communication is required?
> 
>      Lastly, is there anything the community can do to help out? Maybe
> donating to a FreeBSD Foundation project that sponsors IPsec related
> work?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Matthew
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-net at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"

-- 
- Alfred Perlstein