strongSwan on FreeBSD » History » Version 5
Tobias Brunner, 15.07.2009 11:55
removed packages required for a build-without-tarball
| 1 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | h1. strongSwan on FreeBSD |
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| 3 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | The IKEv2 daemon charon has recently been ported to "FreeBSD":http://www.freebsd.org. There are some [[FreeBSD#Limitations|limitations]] and it is not thoroughly tested. |
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| 5 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | This document describes how to install strongSwan on FreeBSD 7.2. |
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| 7 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | h2. Prepare FreeBSD |
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| 9 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | The generic FreeBSD kernel does not come with IPsec support. So you will have to compile your own kernel. |
| 10 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | Also, the kernel sources do not include NAT traversal. If you need that, you'll have to apply a patch. |
| 11 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | Then you will also need some additional packages to compile strongSwan. |
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| 13 | 3 | Tobias Brunner | h3. Build the Kernel |
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| 15 | 4 | Tobias Brunner | Basic information on how to build a custom kernel can be found in the "FreeBSD Handbook":http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html. |
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| 17 | 3 | Tobias Brunner | You'll need to add the following options to your kernel configuration file: |
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| 19 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | <pre> |
| 20 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | options IPSEC |
| 21 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | device crypto |
| 22 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | </pre> |
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| 24 | 2 | Tobias Brunner | You can verify that your kernel has IPsec support using the following command. Which should print a list of ipsec specific kernel state. |
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| 26 | 2 | Tobias Brunner | <pre> |
| 27 | 2 | Tobias Brunner | /sbin/sysctl -a | grep ipsec |
| 28 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | </pre> |
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| 30 | 3 | Tobias Brunner | If you need NAT Traversal, apply one of the "patches":http://vanhu.free.fr/FreeBSD/ provided by Yvan Vanhullebus. Then add the following option to your kernel config. |
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| 32 | 3 | Tobias Brunner | <pre> |
| 33 | 3 | Tobias Brunner | options IPSEC_NAT_T |
| 34 | 3 | Tobias Brunner | </pre> |
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| 36 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | h3. Install Packages |
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| 38 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | Our test-system was installed using the Developer and Kern-Developer distributions in sysinstall. So there are maybe additional packages required on your system. |
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| 40 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | The packages required to build strongSwan are as follows: |
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| 42 | 5 | Tobias Brunner | * vstr |
| 43 | 5 | Tobias Brunner | * libgmp |
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| 45 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | Notes: |
| 46 | 5 | Tobias Brunner | * Although FreeBSD supports the GNU specific register_printf_function function, the implementation in the C library contains a "bug":http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/133776 that prevents this from working in a multi-threaded application. Therefore the *vstr* string library is required. |
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| 48 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | h2. Building strongSwan |
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| 50 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | Get the latest tarball and configure strongSwan as follows: |
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| 52 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | <pre> |
| 53 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | ./configure --enable-kernel-pfkey --enable-kernel-pfroute --disable-kernel-netlink --enable-vstr --disable-tools --disable-pluto --with-lib-prefix=/usr/local |
| 54 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | </pre> |
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| 57 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | h2. Limitations |
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| 59 | 1 | Tobias Brunner | * Due to the lack of policy based routes, virtual IPs can not be used (client-side). |
| 60 | 2 | Tobias Brunner | * The kernel-pfroute interface lacks some final tweaks to fully support MOBIKE. |