Benchmarks for Native IPsec in the 2.6 Kernel (Linux Journal)

[Posted October 12, 2004 by ris]

Linux Journal explores the IPsec implementation for the 2.6.x kernels. "FreeS/WAN has been the main IPsec implementation for Linux for a long time. Unfortunately, FreeS/WAN has never been integrated into the Linux kernel itself. Instead, the new native kernel IPsec implementation is based on the KAME project, a part of the UNIX/BSD family. The USAGI project used the BSD code from the KAME project as a base for integrating IPsec into the Linux kernel. KAME's user-space tools, specifically setkey and Racoon, have been ported to Linux by the IPsec-tools Project."

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