On Wednesday 22 April 2009 11:05:20 pm Mark Webb wrote: > 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. Okay, fair enough. Good luck and if you have any questions let us know. > 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-selinu > >>x/ > >> > >> 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 -- 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.
