From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: tgraf@suug.ch
Cc: davem@damveloft.net, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [IPv4] ESP: Discard dummy packets introduced in rfc4303
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:53:57 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071210.165357.115406037.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071210221703.GG11220@postel.suug.ch>
From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:17:03 +0100
> RFC4303 introduces dummy packets with a nexthdr value of 59
> to implement traffic confidentiality. Such packets need to
> be dropped silently and the payload may not be attempted to
> be parsed as it consists of random chunk.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Applied to net-2.6, since this is more of a bug fix than
anything else.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-11 0:53 UTC|newest]
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2007-12-10 22:17 [IPv4] ESP: Discard dummy packets introduced in rfc4303 Thomas Graf
2007-12-11 0:53 ` David Miller [this message]
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