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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: agruen@suse.de, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [NAT-T] NON-IKE encapsulation
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:46:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040624124654.36b31815.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040624123603.GA1241@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:36:03 +1000
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> I'm having trouble understanding why we need to increase alen by
> two bytes for NON-IKE.  As far as I can see it's adding two bytes
> of random data to the end of the packet.  Is there something
> obvious that I'm missing?

It is intentional as far as I remember.  If it's any other length,
then the other side implementing this non-IKE encap stuff won't
accept the packet, it must be that length.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-24 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-24 12:36 [NAT-T] NON-IKE encapsulation Herbert Xu
2004-06-24 19:46 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-06-24 21:41   ` Herbert Xu
2004-06-25 17:12 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-25 21:57   ` Herbert Xu
2004-06-25 22:09     ` David S. Miller
2004-06-25 22:13     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2004-06-25 22:12       ` David S. Miller
2004-06-25 23:30     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2004-06-26  0:47       ` Herbert Xu

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