[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: IPSec and IPv6

To: Jack Aubert <jaubert@cpcug.org>
Subject: Re: IPSec and IPv6
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:09:58 -0400
Cc: ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
Sender: owner-ipsec@lists.tislabs.com

In message <3.0.32.19990407080204.00765b80@cpcug.org>, Jack Aubert writes:
> I have now heard for the second time somebody allege that IPSec is
> intimately connected with IPv6.  I've been trying to follow developments in
> both areas to some degree, and have not run across anything in the RFCs
> from either group to support this contention.  Did I miss something?  
> 
>  
> 
No.

IPv6 does mandate IPsec.  But IPsec itself was carefully designed to work
with IPv4 or IPv6.  And there's plenty of interoperating, running code to
prove the point.

Prev by Date: IPSec and IPv6
Next by Date: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ipsec-ecn-00.txt
Prev by thread: IPSec and IPv6
Next by thread: New re-keying document: draft-jenkins-ipsec-rekeying-01.txt
Index(es):
- Main
- Thread