(racoon 799) Re: Dual, synchronous quick mode

Francis Dupont <[email protected]> Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:33:59 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.network.ipv6.kame.racoon
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 In your previous mail you wrote:

   I am a (french) NetBSD/Racoon user, and I have an IKE/IPsec problem.
   It happens when, simultaneously, two hosts begin a quick mode with
   each other, with the same parameters. Accoding to my experiments, it
   ends with two SA created instead of one, which do not satisfy me.
   
=> this is explicitely addressed in IKE specs (but I am afraid
racoon as usual is not compliant at all about this).
The best text about this is in the IKEv2 draft and begins with:
   If the two ends have the same lifetime policies, it is possible that
   both will initiate a rekeying at the same time (which will result in
   ...

Regards

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