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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: Problem with xfrm (ipsec) as state/spi selected solely on outer
 ip addresses
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 18:13:41 +0200
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Joakim Koskela wrote:
> I'm running a system where there might be multiple simultenously
> active ipsec states between two hosts (ipv6, but guess it applies to
> v4 as well) where the outer ip is the same for all states, but the
> inner differ (using beet mode).
> 
> The problem is that after establishing these states, it seems that the
> one associated with outgoing traffic is selected solely by the outer
> address (the first state matching the outer ip-pairs is used), which
> usually results in the wrong spi and the packet being dropped at the
> receiver.


This should only pick states matching the flow:

if (x->km.state == XFRM_STATE_VALID) {


        if (!xfrm_selector_match(&x->sel, fl, family) ||
            !security_xfrm_state_pol_flow_match(x, pol, fl))
                continue;
...

I'm probably misunderstanding your configuration, could you post the
SA selectors and addresses that result in an incorrect state being
picked?