Re: New issue 16: No packets from other end?

Francis Dupont <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:05:00 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.mobike
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

 In your previous mail you wrote:

   > => this is why I said "should be only an option": the R-U-THERE
   > of IKEv2 is not well suited for parallel probing because of
   > the window issue. IMHO the real problem is that probes should
   > be at the IP layer not at the IKEv2 layer: one tries to probe
   > the IP paths, not the peer IKEv2.
   > 

   So is IP reachability both necessary and sufficient for "IKE-reachability"?

=> of course only necessary but what we need is not IKE reachability
but IPsec reachability.

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PS: IMHO the IKE-reachability is already handled by IKEv2 itself, i.e.,
MOBIKE can add new failure cases but should not introduce its own new
mechanism.