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Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]>
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Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:07:40 +0100
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Connie Sieh wrote:
> 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.
>

It also builds on xen kernel.

# uname -r
2.6.18-53.1.13.el5xen
# lsmod | grep cisco
cisco_ipsec           559900  0

    Urs


> -Connie Sieh
>
>>
>> Troy
>>

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