netdev - Re: [PATCH] xfrm: SAD entries do not expire correctly after suspend-resume

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Message-ID: <20091109192354.GA10088@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:23:54 -0500
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Yury Polyanskiy <ypolyans@...nceton.edu>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, peterz@...radead.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfrm: SAD entries do not expire correctly after
	suspend-resume

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:31:53PM -0500, Yury Polyanskiy wrote:
>
> But why would it be inoperable for hours? 

As I said the other end is buggy and won't allow you to reconnect
when you've just connected successfully.  Eventially it'll timeout
and let you back in but it could take hours.

> In any case, running ntpdate before racoon fixes the problem.

Not if the only trusted time source is over IPsec.

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