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Re: SL 5.1 non-smp versus smp
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:46:51 -0600
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Fernando Rannou wrote:
>> Hi Mark and Akemi
>> thanks for your prompt responses.
>>
>> Right! The Cisco VPN user's guide says:
>> "The VPN Client for Linux does not support kernel Version 2.5 prior to
>> VPN Client Release 4.0.1.A and
>> does not support SMP (multiprocessor) kernels in any release of the VPN
>> Client."
>>
>> But there used to be kernel.*.rpm and kernel-smp.*.rpm
>> for download. Is there such a thing for SL-5.1
>>
>
> No.
> Why?
> RedHat made that decision.  We do *not* change the kernel at all.
>
> If Cisco really does not support our kernel's, then they do not support
> RedHat's kernel's, and as such they are hurting a huge install base.

I think it builds just fine on SL 5.x .
What version of the VPN code are you trying to build?
I suspect the xen kernel you are running might be a issue too.

-Connie Sieh

>
> Troy
>

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