Re: IPSEC target and transport mode

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com>]

Bill Strahm <bill@strahm.net> writes:
> Here I forgot a major branch of Unicies, sorry about that (and I am
> typing on xBSD box right now too, how embarrasing)
> 
> That is part of the question, now is NetBSD going to implement
> iSCSI,

Yes. Wasabi has been asked to provide iSCSI for NetBSD for an
interested party which is why you suddenly saw a bunch of us appear in
the working group.

> and if so as a target/initiator (hopefully both)

Both.

> and then how will it use the protocol stack underneath it...

We will be using our standard stacks, though we will be adding in
hooks for hardware based acceleration for those customers that need
it.

> Is NetBSD capable of L2TP over transport mode, and how is the IPsec policy 
> configured.

We don't support L2TP so far as I know. We configure policy by having
userland tools tell the kernel what to do.

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