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Re: AH (without ESP) on a secure gateway



Pau-Chen wrote:
> I have a question triggered by the discussion :
> 
>   If two firewalls (gateways), IDii and IDir, did a successful ISAKMP
>   phase-II proxy negotiation for IDui and IDur. Then, which one is the
>   right usage of the SA resulting from the negotiation :
> 
>   1. The SA is shared between IDii and IDir (the gateways), and IDii
>      IDir are performing IPSEC protection on traffic between IDui and
>      IDur. In this case, IDui and IDur are unware of the IPSEC
>      protection.
> 
>   2. The SA is shared between IDui and IDur and IDui and IDur perform
>      IPSEC by themselves. IDii and IDir (the gateways) become more or less
>      (IPSEC) transparent.

Number one is the correct usage. 

  Dan.