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Joe Touch wrote:
>
> Tschofenig Hannes wrote:
> | hi all,
> |
> | i guess we can close issue # 16:
> | "Can the protocol recover from situations where the only
> | sign of problems is lack of packets from the other end?"
> | http://www.vpnc.org/ietf-mobike/issue16.txt
>
> Internet paths that are silent aren't problems, IMO. They're
> just idle network paths.
>
> This sounds like a job for a link layer, and I don't think
> mobike needs to be a link layer.
Perhaps the issue was a bit inaccurately named, but it was
really about the case where DPD fails: we're sending an IKEv2
request, but don't receive a reply from the other end (even
after retransmitting the request several times).
(This is of course quite different from idle network path.)
Best regards,
Pasi