NAT-T support for IPSec stack

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, VANHULLEBUS Yvan wrote:

Hi,

> > Yes ( as a user ) but I am not a FreeBSD developer. I think there was
> > initially resistance from open source groups to integrate this support
> > due to patent issues ( maybe just WRT usage w/ IKEv1 ) but must have
> > been resolved as both OpenBSD and Linux support this functionality now.
>
> Yep.
>
> KAME team did not integrate another NAT-T implementation a few years
> ago for those reasons.
>
> More infos about that may be get from Emmanuel Dreyfus, a NetBSD
> developper and a member of the ipsec-tools team, which made the NetBSD
> NAT-T support, and told me a few month ago that NetBSD lawyers were
> looking at that potential IPR issue.

do you have more info about this?

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