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RE: Bundle or not in negotiation



Would someone please address  Scott's earlier questions; copied in the
paragraph below?  This is my understanding according to the "Security
Architecture for the IP" ---- but now I am not sure that I can do this with
ISKAMP without breaking something.  I thought the SPD would dictate these
relationships.

Scott G. Kelly wrote:
> This nails another point that's been nagging at me lately: the
> architecture explicitly permits sharing of SAs, which I take to mean
> between different endpoints which match the policy rule used to
> instantiate the SAs to begin with. However, there is no way (that I can
> see) to negotiate this in IKE. That is, once the SA is instantiated,
> there doesn't seem to be any way to negotiate the addition of more
> endpoints to it. It appears that fresh SAs must be negotiated, with new
> keys, etc. My first thought was that I could just pass the SPI of the
> instantiated SA in the later negotiations, but there's no way to
> indicate that the original keying material should be shared. Am I way
> out there on this, or should we think about a way to permit this in IKE?
>



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