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Re: phase 1 lifetime by traffic (was RE: Retransmits in traffic count? )




Yes, our implementation has it. I agree that it shouldn't be changed.
We have it and I have no idea whether or not our customers use it. 

Thanks,
Phuong

Tim Jenkins wrote:
> 
> I said this before: our implementation has the "knob" (as Dan puts it) to
> allow the customer to do this. Why? Because it was part of the specs, so it
> was done. Do our customers use it? I have no idea.
> 
> But it doesn't matter. My entire point is that the number 2 for life type of
> traffic must not be changed to mean something else, since there are
> implementations out there legitimately using that value. It's not clear to
> me that is going to be changed; I just want to make it clear that it
> shouldn't be changed.
> 
> Just because it is ignored during negotiations is not an excuse to change
> it. What if we send a lifetime notification when we have traffic limited
> expiration and the peer doesn't? What does the value 2 mean to the peer
> versus our implementation if it gets changed?
> 
> I don't care if the new IKE says don't do phase 1 expiration using traffic.
> I don't have a problem if implementations don't support that capability. But
> the value needs to be held for backwards compatibility for lifetime
> notification parsing if nothing else.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Harkins [mailto:dharkins@network-alchemy.com]
> Sent: August 5, 1999 4:11 PM
> To: Tim Jenkins
> Cc: ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
> Subject: Re: Retransmits in traffic count?
> 
> I'll ask again: who uses phase 1 lifetime of KB? Can anyone think of a
> good reason to?
> 
>   Dan.


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