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Re: ISAKMP Configuration Method



Excellent. David W. Faucher also pointed out to me that the value is
indeed specified in the draft. I apologize for not reading the draft
carefully enough and I thank you for your time.

  -brad

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Derrell D. Piper wrote:

> 
> Brad,
> 
> Oh, sorry.  I didn't understand you were asking an ISAKMP Config Mode specific
> question.  That draft does define a new Attribute Payload which Section 3.2 in
> it says has the value of 14.  14 is simply the first unassigned value after
> the ISAKMP Vendor ID Payload value (13).  
> 
> It's really not cool for them to have done that since 14 has technically been
> reserved to IANA since the ISAKMP draft became a standard's track RFC, but
> this draft was first published before that happened.  IANA now owns the ISAKMP
> Payload type registry and only if this draft advances will it necessarily get
> the value 14.  However, given the number of fielded implementations using
> config mode (with XAUTH), it's probably safe to use 14...
> 
> Derrell
> 





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