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>19.2.1. Support in vanilla Linux kernel 2.4.x</H2
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>At the time of writing missing in vanilla up to 2.4.28. There was an issue about keeping the Linux kernel source free of export/import-control-laws regarding encryption code. This is also one case why <A
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>19.2.2. Support in vanilla Linux kernel 2.6.x</H2
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>Current versions (as time of writing 2.6.9 and upper) support native IPsec for IPv4 and IPv6.</P
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