Craig Morse wrote:
> 1. I was wondering what the command would be to verify what was
> compiled in the kernel, namely, I am trying to determine what I need to have
> compiled to use IPSec for VPNs.
I don't know of a good, general way to query a kernel for its range of
compiled-in functionality. If you find one let me know.
But it is pretty unlikely that your existing machine would have IPSec
functions compiled in unless you put it there yourself. For a long time
they couldn't make IPSec part of the stock kernel due to US crypto
restrictions, and I don't think that's changed since the crypto
restrictions were loosened.
Adding in IPSec functinality is really easy, though. Go to
www.freeswan.org.
> 2. I am wondering what all needs to be configured to have the NIC
> operate properly. I configured a 10/100 NIC with an IP address, mask, etc
> but it does not want to talk to other devices on the network.
Lots of things could be wrong but we'd need more detail to have some
idea what. How did you install Linux? Which distro, which version?
Most distributions will detect your network card and take care of the
details for you during installation; the fact that yours doesn't work
suggests that something went wrong somewhere, but like I said it's tough
to know what without more information. Can you ping your machine's own
address? I don't mean localhost, I mean the IP address that your NIC
should be assigned, from the machine itself.
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