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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Maillist netdev <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: IPsec xfrm resolution
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:47:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <421789AF.4020705@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050219183202.GA10773@gondor.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:

>On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 01:29:25PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>  
>
>>This is not what happens currently. If an optional IPCOMP SA is missing
>>it is skipped entirely. It is also legal to configure an optional
>>ah/esp tunnel, although we don't accept such packets if the SA isn't
>>present.
>>    
>>
>
>That's a bug.  How can you forward packets properly if the tunnel mode
>SA is missing?
>
Using normal routing. What meaning would "optional" have otherwise ?
If the encapsulation has to be done, the user shouldn't mark the SA
as optional in my opinion.

Regards
Patrick

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-19 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050209085251.GA9030@gondor.apana.org.au>
     [not found] ` <420B9DF1.3020704@trash.net>
     [not found]   ` <20050210202810.GA1609@gondor.apana.org.au>
     [not found]     ` <42144C3F.2060501@trash.net>
     [not found]       ` <20050217091137.GA9476@gondor.apana.org.au>
2005-02-17 23:26         ` IPsec xfrm resolution Patrick McHardy
2005-02-18 10:08           ` Herbert Xu
2005-02-19  6:03             ` Patrick McHardy
2005-02-19  9:23               ` Herbert Xu
2005-02-19 12:29                 ` Patrick McHardy
2005-02-19 18:32                   ` Herbert Xu
2005-02-19 18:47                     ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2005-02-19 19:03                       ` Herbert Xu
2005-02-19 19:53                         ` Patrick McHardy
2005-02-19 20:26                           ` Patrick McHardy
2005-02-20  6:57                             ` Herbert Xu
2005-03-18  4:32                 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-18  6:24                   ` Herbert Xu
2005-03-20 15:51                   ` Patrick McHardy
2005-03-20 20:38                     ` Herbert Xu
2005-03-23  2:28                       ` Patrick McHardy

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