Paul, Thanks for the response. As of right now, I am just trying to understand and learn the options available to me. I am most interested in the Labeled IPSec. I would like to study this at both the kernel level and the network packet level. --Mark On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Paul Moore <paul.moore@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 22 April 2009 07:26:45 am Mark Webb wrote: >> I am interested in experimenting with the labeled networking that SE >> Linux offers. I am reading through Josh Brindle's blog >> >> http://securityblog.org/brindle/2007/05/28/secure-networking-with-selinux/ >> >> My question is, how do I know if my kernel is capable of supporting >> this? I am currently running Fedora 10 with all the latest updates >> but not sure how to check. > > The Fedora kernels are built with all of the labeled networking bits so you > should be all set from a kernel point of view, but as Xavier/Ted pointed out > you may need additional userspace packages to configure everything. > >> Also if I compile a kernel from source, is there anything that needs >> to be done in the configuring of the kernel build to enable the >> labeled networking? > > At this point I have to ask "what kind of labeled networking?" Labeled > networking is a fairly generic term with three different mechanisms available > on Linux: labeled IPsec (likely what you are reading about on Josh's blog), > Secmark (search James Morris' blog, http://james-morris.livejournal.com), and > NetLabel (search my blog, http://paulmoore.livejournal.com). > > Which are you interested in? Or perhaps more to the point, what are you > trying to do? > > -- > paul moore > linux @ hp > > -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
