netdev - Re: [IPv6] UDP Encapsulation of IPsec ESP Packets

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Message-Id: <E1Hr8mJ-00024X-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 24 May 2007 18:34:35 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	fernando@....ntt.co.jp (Fernando Luis V??zquez Cao)
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [IPv6] UDP Encapsulation of IPsec ESP Packets

Fernando Luis V??zquez Cao <fernando@....ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> I noticed that IPv4-over-IPv6 made into 2.6.21 (thank you!) and that
> prompted to check the progress with the implementation of rfc3948 (UDP
> Encapsulation of IPsec ESP Packets) in Linux. For IPv4 the code is
> already there, but that does not seem to be the case for IPv6. I have
> checked the usagi kernels and Dave S. Miller's net git tree and could
> not find anything.
> 
> Is anyone working on this? I would appreciate any information on the
> status of this work.

If we don't have NAT on IPv6 why would you need UDP encapsulation?

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