netdev - Re: xfrm selector generating IKE

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Message-ID: <20090225003330.GA29906@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:33:30 +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 09:23:39AM -0800, Paul Moore wrote:
> are you sure that works. the xfrm code in the kernel does not look at
> the policy selector when checking port numbers to see if it should reuse
> an existing SA. It only looks at the selector on the SA - this is why
> racoon has a problem. The policy selector has the correct portness in it
> but the SA does not. I have not tested it but I suspect openswan has the
> same issue since it passes in an empty SA selector

Yes I'm sure it works :) It uses the reqid field to tie policies
to the SAs.

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