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From: "Timo Teräs" <timo.teras@iki.fi>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fixing SA/SP dumps on netlink/af_key
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:27:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <478EF542.1010702@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JFHDM-00010A-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:
> jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca> wrote:
>> There are two issues that are inter-mingled in there. The most important
>> is pf_key not being robust on dump. The other being the accurracy of
> 
> IMHO doing significant work on af_key is a waste of time.  It has no
> advantages at all over xfrm_user since neither is portable.  So we
> should discourage people from using af_key wherever possible.

I don't know about netlink. But pfkey works in *BSD too and it is RFC'd.
So I'd say pfkey might be a bit more portable. Though netlink is definitely
more robust and extensive.

Cheers,
  Timo



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-17  6:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-13 12:26 [RFC][PATCH] Fixing SA/SP dumps on netlink/af_key Timo Teräs
2008-01-16 13:52 ` jamal
2008-01-16 14:28   ` Timo Teräs
2008-01-17  1:25     ` jamal
2008-01-16 22:58   ` Herbert Xu
2008-01-17  1:39     ` jamal
2008-01-17  2:17       ` Herbert Xu
2008-01-17  5:54         ` Timo Teräs
2008-01-17 11:11           ` Herbert Xu
2008-01-17 12:21             ` Timo Teräs
2008-01-17 12:26             ` jamal
2008-01-17 12:42           ` jamal
2008-01-17 12:50             ` Herbert Xu
2008-01-17 13:18               ` jamal
2008-01-17 13:31               ` Timo Teräs
2008-01-17 21:34                 ` Herbert Xu
2008-01-18  6:45                   ` Timo Teräs
2008-01-18 14:08                     ` jamal
2008-01-17  6:27     ` Timo Teräs [this message]
2008-01-17  7:16       ` David Miller
2008-01-17  7:38         ` Timo Teräs
2008-01-17  7:59           ` David Miller
2008-01-17  8:11             ` Timo Teräs
2008-01-17  8:49               ` David Miller
2008-01-17  9:20                 ` Timo Teräs
2008-01-17  9:31                   ` David Miller
2008-01-17  9:38                     ` Timo Teräs
2008-01-17  9:44                       ` David Miller
2008-01-17 10:01                         ` Timo Teräs
2008-01-17 10:06                           ` David Miller
2008-01-17 11:00                             ` Timo Teräs
2008-01-17 11:08                               ` David Miller
2008-01-17 12:37                                 ` Timo Teräs

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