(racoon 700) Re: racoon + Cisco VPN Client

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Thomas Walpuski wrote:

> You might not have noticed it: Emmanuel Dreyfus ([email protected]) did a
> very nice and interesting thing. He implemented IKE mode config (incl.
> Cisco's UNITY extensions), XAUTH and hybrid authentication for racoon.
> The code also supports authentication against RADIUS (very useful for
> large-scale deployment). At the moment Emmanuel is working on DHCP
> integration. See http://ftp.espci.fr/shadow/manu/racoon-20040828.tgz.
>
> That's a unique selling point for racoon, because you can use the "free"
> Cisco VPN Client on your roadwarriors. IMO this is the best thing that
> happened to racoon for a long time.
>
> Are there any chances to see Emmanuel's code integrated in to the
> mainstream racoon? He already did a very good job and added
> configuration options, etc. The only thing you have to do is to take a
> look at the code, maybe polish some parts and merge it in to the CVS
> tree?
>
> To you think there is a future for his code in racoon?

Speaking for IPsec-tools: Yes.

We were already asked to include it (along with NetBSD and FreeBSD
support) and I believe we'll accept these patches to our CVS tree.

Michal Ludvig
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