netdev - Re: [devel-ipsec] [PATCH v2 ipsec-next 2/2] xfrm: fix source address in icmp error generation from IPsec gateway

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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 09:30:07 -0400
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@...delman.ca>
To: antony.antony@...unet.com
cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
    Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
    devel@...ux-ipsec.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
    "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [devel-ipsec] [PATCH v2 ipsec-next 2/2] xfrm: fix source address in icmp error generation from IPsec gateway

Antony Antony via Devel <devel@...ux-ipsec.org> wrote:
    > When enabling support for xfrm lookup using reverse ICMP payload,
    > We have identified an issue where the source address of the IPv4 e.g
    > "Destination Host Unreachable" message is incorrect. The IPv6 appear
    > to do the right thing.

One thing that operators of routers with a multitude of interfaces want to do
is send all ICMP messages from a specific IP address.  Often the public
address, that has the sane reverse DNS name.
AFAIK, this is not an option on Linux, but Cisco/Juniper/etc. devices usually
can do this.  I can't recall how today. (I was actually looking that up this week)

This can conflict however, with the need to get the result back into the
tunnel.  I don't have a good answer, except that we probably need a fair bit
of flexibility, with some good automatically discovered defaults.

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