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RE: Notify Invalid Spi/Cookie (was RE: Phase 1 KB lifetime)
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Sankar Ramamoorthi wrote:
> With the present rule, one end of the communication could endup
> sending packets into a blackhole and there is no way to notice
> it till the sender's SA expires...
Given properly-functioning ends, how could such a situation arise? How
would one end forget an SA that the other end was still using? About
the only way for this to happen is to have one end crash and reboot...
and that's what the Initial-Contact notification is for.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net
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