Subject: Re: ipsec policy API change
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/04/2000 08:30:28
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 08:18:06PM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> I'm trying to bring in latest KAME ipsec policy API, so that
> we can run more recent racoon on it. One thing I'm very annoyed about
> is that there's struct size change in PF_KEY messages. Simple upgrade
> will cause PF_KEY related programs like setkey(8) to choke.
> It is rather hard to put backward compatibility crap.
>
> Is it okay to require recompilation of setkey(8) in this case?
> Note that we have never released setkey(8) nor PF_KEY API in NetBSD
> official releases.
Just do it. We don't need to worry about the PF_KEY compatibility in
this case.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>