I've been off the list for quite awhile, so if this has been beat to death already, I apologize. Is there any kind of consensus of opinion on the linux-ipsec project? What do people outside of the project think about it? It seems like a very good thing to me, but I don't know much about s/wan, so my opinion isn't worth much. I'm a little curious as to how this project fits in with other secure IP efforts. Will the linux-ipsec software interoperate with other packages? How does it relate to IPv6? Policymaker? Basically, I'm not very clear about the significance of this project. Is it going to be a good package that I could use to encrypt traffic between offices in NY and LA, or is it going to be a package that will let me communicate securely with the net at large, using a well accepted standard? Finally, what do you all think about the basic way this is set up? I mean, does it make sense to use a linux box with two net cards to protect a lan? Or should secip software be built into individual devices, like it is in IPv6? Is this a standard that might get picked up by someone like cisco? Etc. Thanks... -- Alex Strasheim, alex@proust.suba.com