Roadwarrior <b>carol</b> proposes to gateway <b>moon</b> the ESP cipher suite <b>AES_CBC_128 / HMAC_SHA2_256_96</b> which uses 96 bit instead of the standard 128 bit truncation, allowing compatibility with Linux kernels older than 2.6.33 by defining <b>esp=aes128-sha256_96-curve25519!</b> in ipsec.conf. A ping from <b>carol</b> to <b>alice</b> successfully checks the established tunnel.