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Re: IPsec xfrm resolution

To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: IPsec xfrm resolution
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 06:03:33 +1100
Cc: Maillist netdev <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 07:47:11PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
> >That's a bug.  How can you forward packets properly if the tunnel mode
> >SA is missing?
>
> Using normal routing. What meaning would "optional" have otherwise ?
> If the encapsulation has to be done, the user shouldn't mark the SA
> as optional in my opinion.

In that case you can't mark IPCOMP SAs as optional in this scenario
which is the most common application of optional:

IPCOMP(tunnel) -- ESP(transport)
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