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From: k8 s <uint32@gmail.com>
To: Michael Becker <michbec@t-online.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPSec Inbound Processing Basic Doubt
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:38:17 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <699a19ea05062810087b79f12f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <506243806.20050627182416@t-online.de>

Hello,

> So far you are right with your assumptions, I hope my explanation just
> made it a bit clearer.

Yes. It was really nice organization of whole thing.


>The whole decapsulation is done in xfrm4_rcv_encap, except in case of
>nat-traversal, where udp_rcv comes into play.
>After the whole xfrm processing is done the packet is put back into the
>network stack as it would look like without being ever processed by IPSec
>(almost :-).

I have a doubt regarding nat-traversal. Let me first admit that I
don't have a perfect understanding of the NAT traversal concept. I
heard that IPSec is kept in a UDP packet and sent.  How does the tx
side processing happen (the host from which the udp encapsulated ipsec
packet originated). The last call in the stackable destination is
ip_output() as you said.
How does it go back to udp(transport) layer in this case.

S.Kartikeyan
http://www.geocities.com/kartikeyans/

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-28 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-23 17:55 IPSec Inbound Processing Basic Doubt k8 s
2005-06-27 16:24 ` Michael Becker
2005-06-28 17:08   ` k8 s [this message]
2005-06-28 17:31     ` k8 s
2005-06-28 21:53       ` Re[2]: " Michael Becker
2005-06-28 21:41     ` Michael Becker

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