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Re: heads-up: IPSEC is now FAST_IPSEC



Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:

> Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost> wrote:
>> 
>> I've just made FAST_IPSEC the default implementation which gets
>> used if the IPSEC kernel option is present.
>> <...>
>> 
>> The old KAME implementation is still available through
>> the KAME_IPSEC kernel option. The old IPSEC_ESP option
>> is meaningless with (FAST_)IPSEC (ESP is always enabled)
>> but still in effect with KAME_IPSEC.
>
> Thanks a lot for working on this.  Are you planning to remove old IPSEC
> code?  It would bring simplifications, clean-up and would make further work
> on network stack less painful.  I think post-netbsd-6 branch (or even now?)
> would be a very good time.

Removing the code so it isn't in NetBSD 6 seems premature.  There
shouldn't be much simplification/cleanup etc. on the branch.  And I
don't know what fraction of people who use IPsec at all use FAST_IPSEC
vs IPSEC - I would suspect that the new code has been exposed to only a
small fraction of the use cases.

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