On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:33:00PM -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote:
> 
> Ultimately I need a secure VPN connection using IPSEC/IKE, and the current
> support extends to cover Cisco, Juniper, and Check Point, and a 4th method
> using OpenSwan on a Linux box. The client will connect to one of these.

You're definitely needing XAUTH and CFG, which we don't have in our IKEv1.

> I wonder if Nexenta has OpenSwan support...(thinking out loud)? That mean
> both ways, in the sense could an OpenSwan client connect to your punchin
> server, as well as could your punchin client connect to an OpenSwan server.

OpenSWAN is both kernel IPsec (which we have already) and IKE (which is
usr/closed).  To my knowledge, you can't just port OpenSWAN.

You could take OpenSWAN's IKE, rip out its user->kernel interfaces and
replace them with ours (PF_KEY has fragmented beyond RFC 2367, plus Linux has
an alternate user->kernel interface) if you're feeling ambitious.

> Dan's original reply mentioned that the IKE support was in closed, so it
> would seem that most of it is in Oracle's hands. In that sense it might be
> good to see OpenSwan ported to Solaris. I wonder if that can work on
> Nexenta...?

Only if you do what I suggested above and do the port of *JUST* OpenSWAN's
IKE daemon.

Dan
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