Re: labeled network aware kernel

[Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>]

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@hp.com> 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


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