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Re: v6-in-v4 IPsec and NAT traversal

To: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: v6-in-v4 IPsec and NAT traversal
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:53:44 +0200 (EET)
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On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm interested whether Linux IPsec implementations support:
> > 
> > 1) IPv6 payload inside IPv4 IPsec tunnel/transport?
> 
> It's not supported directly by the IPsec stack.  However, you can
> setup an SIT tunnel over a transport IPv4 IPsec SA.

Is this planned?  Are there issues with "native" support why it would 
not be feasible?

Avoiding double encapsulation would be IMHO really useful, and several 
other implementations are already reported to allow this.

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Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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