Re: [suse-security] Problem with freeswan after 2.4.19 kernel update

["Dieter Kirchner" <dkirchner@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

>Since updating our SuSE 8.1 VPN gateway with the latest 2.4.19 kernel
>update (k_deflt-2.4.19-329), users are reporting problems creating IPsec
>connections.

>Any ideas how to fix this?

Did you reboot ? If not, try this first. If "depmod -a" after reboot shows
errors, wait for the fix by SuSE (they messed up this update AFAIK) or
compile a new kernel by yourself. Download for the necessary kernel-patches
the super-freeswan (1.98 or so) package, download kernelsource, decompress
both, configure your kernel, change into the super-freeswan source dir,
issue a "make insert" to generate links and patches, configure the kernel
again (this time ipsec will show up), compile and install the kernel and
modules, reboot. This procedure worked for me. If you do not configure the
kernel before "make insert" the script will complain (it work anyway, I did
not test this).
This will fix the broken mppe of SuSE also, for usage with pptpd, if you
like to use this kind of VPN also make sure you have "bsd-compress" option
for ppp enabled too.

Regards,

Dieter

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Dieter Kirchner
Systemadministration BUPNET
+49 551 54707 62 D-Goettingen
http://www.bupnet.de
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