(usagi-users 03463) Re: Showstopper for transport mode IPSec in Linux kernel?

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Mitsuru KANDA / [ISO-2022-JP] ¿ÀÅÄ ½¼ wrote:

> Just FYI.
>
> Please see 'ARP-like resolution of IPSEC rules' in http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/net_todo.html

Thanks for the pointer.  It is a big relief for me to see that the problem
is known and acknowledged.

>
> At Wed, 3 Aug 2005 10:18:39 +0200 (CEST),
> "Peder Chr. Norgaard" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I sent the mail below to this list some weeks ago, and I am a little
> > surprised that there has been no response.  The problem is actually quite
> > serious, and it is specific for the Linux kernel implementation of IPsec -
> > I have talked with people who claim that the problem is not present in
> > *bsd kernels, for instance.
>
> BSD(aka kame impl.) just discards the first packet before keyring
> negotiation done.

Yes, that is one way of solving the problem.  In my book this technique is
OK - it has the advantage of simplicity.  The queueing technique that is
described in the reference you give is bound to be more complex to get
right.

Thanks again
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