netdev - Re: xfrm selector generating IKE

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Date:	Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:27:45 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Paul Moore <paul.moore@...trify.com>
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: xfrm selector generating IKE

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:07:06PM -0800, Paul Moore wrote:
> You seem to be saying that that if I explicitly set the policy reqids
> that it should work. 
> 
> I had experimented with that a lot 
> 
> The problem is that I cannot find a good combination of reqids 

It's very simple, you want each equivalent class of SAs (i.e.,
SAs where any one can replace the other) to be assigned a unique
reqid.

The Openswan algorithm simply assigns an ID to each policy (or
connection as it stores them internally), and then uses that ID
as the reqid.

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