Cipe?

[Steve Bergman]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> 
> Not any longer.  cipe has never been part of upstream kernel, and, in
> the switch to 2.6, since we got IPSec, and given the security flaws
> that exist in cipe, there was a decision to not add it to the 2.6
> kernel in FC.  

Thanks.  So basically, as far as VPN's go, Fedora is not compatible with 
RHEL, won't be for another year or two, and is incompatible with all 
previous versions of RedHat Linux.  That seems a shame, since Fedora 
desktops and RHEL servers seems a logical combo for many companies.  It 
seems like a better way to have handled it would have been to deprecate 
it in FC2 and remove it in FC3 rather than pulling the rug out from 
under everybody without warning.  RH decided to make CIPE the standard 
instead of ipsec.  It's not as though users knew this was coming and had 
a choice.  We were forced into this position and then abandoned.

-Steve