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Re: Daemon Recovery



   Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:03:49 +0000
   From: "Suren Arockia S." <suren@teil.soft.net>

   I have a problem for which I donot have a proper solution.
   After a complete negotiation between two ISAKMP peers (A and B),
   the peer B crashes. When B recovers, ip packets from A reach
   B with SPI values strange to B. Can someone suggest a method
   to stop A from sending packets using OLD SPI values.

Bill Simpson has proposed an unsecured ICMP message which tells host B
that a particular SPI is invalid.  Unfortunately, there are some obvious
and severe denial of service attacks one could accomplish with this
tack.

I could imagine either requiring that the ICMP message be secured in an
existing SPI from the same host.  A better solution might be to include
in the ISAKMP negotiations a notification that at the successful
conclusion of this SPI negotiation, all other SPI's for the same host
should be discarded.  What do other people think?

						- Ted


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