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Re[2]: Very quick, very basic



oops, excellent observation:) Thank you. I was assuming TCP. thnx

Thursday, January 27, 2000, 12:55:00 PM, you wrote:

SB> Well assuming that you are sending TCP (and not UDP or ICMP) you are
SB> correct...

SB> Bill

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jim Tiller [mailto:jtiller@lucent.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 8:30 AM
>> To: ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
>> Subject: Very quick, very basic
>> 
>> 
>> Please excuse the silliness.
>> 
>> The next header field in ESP contains an 8-bit value to represent the
>> header contained within the encrypted payload.
>> So, this is how I read it, please verify the
>> following for me:
>> 
>> ESP used in tunnel mode -next header = 4 for IP-in-IP
>> ESP used in transport mode -next header = 6 for TCP.
>> 
>> True or false? Or is it reversed?
>> 
>> A very grateful thank you in advance.
>> 
>> -jim
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 





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