Re: address inertia

Jim Carter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.freeswan.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, John S. Denker wrote:
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> connections. The road warriors will not know that the base
> has restarted. They will continue using the old connections
> until they time out, which could take hours. Only then will
> they commence the rekeying procedure which will lead to
> the establishment of new connections.

I thought that, when one side receives traffic on a connection which is
defective, (i.e. it never made that connection because it was just
rebooted), it will give an error reply to the other side, which will
immediately tear up the defective connection and try to rekey.  Have I got
it wrong?  It's kind of dumb to go into "stealth mode" upon receiving
garbage traffic.

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