Re: SIPit23 Survey Notes

Klaus Darilion <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Thomas Froment schrieb:
> Klaus Darilion wrote:
>> Hi Robert!
>>
>> Robert Sparks schrieb:
>>>
>>> 19% supported SIP over IPSec
>>
>> What do you mean with "SIP over IPSec"? Every protocol runs over IPSec 
>> as it is transparent to the application.
> Well, SIP over IPsec is not really "transparent" to the SIP implementation:
> when you want to send a request over an IPSec SA, you MUST be able to 
> choose what is the source interface / source port and destination 
> interface / destination port. This is not something so easy to implement 
> at SIP transport level.

I still do not get it. You can use IPSec without any additional 
interfaces. If the IPSec implementation creates tunnel interfaces, that 
may cause problems to SIP client. But then the problem is due to tunnel 
interfaces (which can be anything, not only IPsec), not due to IPSec.

So if the SIP client does not care if the communication is secured with 
IPsec, then every client should work over IPsec too.

So the question is still - what means "supported SIP over IPSec"?

Does it mean, "Is the SIP client capable of retrieving IPsec information 
from the kernel to find out if a message will be sent via IPsec secured way?

regards
klaus
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