* Charles Steinkuehler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Awk is another beast altogether. Awk isn't really required on a LEAF box, > so if you can get the ipsec stuff running without it, that would be pretty > cool. Looks like a lot of work, though.
You are right. Too much work, I'm afraid. And since they seem to just break out into sed song from line 143 to the end of the "auto" script, it is quite a good possibility that they will try to get creative with that part down the road and leave us stranded at version 1.96. > As to getting IPSec working without relying on netstat, ifconfig, or route, > this might be handy for some folks trying to squeeze VPN functionality into > as little space as possible. When I saw your first post, I sort of assumed > you were trying to build an embedded product based on LEAF... I am going to try to do this. I think I am mostly done. Any advice on getting rid of the "expr" commands that are doing math? > I generally assume folks running an IPSec VPN are not running on low-end > hardware, and can assemble a system with a small HDD, CD-ROM, flash-drive, > dual-floppy, or whatever to get around space issues. Because of this, a > general attempt to keep my life simple (ie keeping the FreeS/WAN scripts as > close to the originals as possible, easeing conversion of the next release), > and the fact that I don't find the ifconfig, route, and netstat commands out > of place on a firewall system, I haven't really tried to remove the > FreeS/WAN dependencies on these commands. If you feel compelled to migrate > to iproute2 for whatever reason, please feel free to do so. There are folks > trying to run IPSec VPN gateways off a single floppy who I'm sure would > appreciate your work, and if the changes arn't to drastic, I might fold them > into my IPSec package. I'll let you know when they are complete. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chad Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
