From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>,
Wolfgang Walter <wolfgang.walter@studentenwerk.mhn.de>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Problem with IPSEC tunnel mode
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 02:13:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <426841AF.2060404@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050421235802.GB10451@gondor.apana.org.au>
Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 07:50:19PM -0400, jamal wrote:
>
>>What was the reason there exist a FWD direction in the policies?
>
> You should really ask Alexey about that :) I myself had the same
> question when I first started in this area. However, since it
> has been present since the very beginning and people are already
> relying on it, we will have to live with it.
I guess it was for performance reasons. A router that only needs
IPsec for management doesn't need to perform policy checks for
forwarded packets, which makes sense too me.
Regards
Patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-22 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-20 15:37 Problem with IPSEC tunnel mode Wolfgang Walter
2005-04-21 12:57 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-21 14:40 ` Wolfgang Walter
2005-04-21 21:46 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-21 23:50 ` jamal
2005-04-21 23:58 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-22 0:13 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2005-04-22 0:18 ` jamal
2005-04-22 0:54 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-22 11:42 ` Wolfgang Walter
2005-04-22 12:14 ` jamal
2005-04-22 13:22 ` Wolfgang Walter
2005-04-22 13:27 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-22 13:48 ` Wolfgang Walter
2005-04-22 13:53 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-23 17:49 ` jamal
2005-04-23 17:52 ` David S. Miller
2005-04-23 21:03 ` Wolfgang Walter
2005-04-24 22:08 ` jamal
2005-04-22 0:40 ` Wolfgang Walter
2005-04-22 1:04 ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-22 9:37 ` Wolfgang Walter
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