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Re: Protection of port 500



Do you mean IPsec implementations silently
ignore the configured policy to protect
udp/500 with IPsec?

Pervaiz

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:37:21 -0800 Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
writes:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:09:12PM -0800, Pervaiz Rizvi wrote:
> 
>  > Since IPsec uses UDP500 for key exchange,
>  > how does it know to ignore configurations
>  > that seek to protect udp/500 with IPsec?
>  > If this were allowed, presumably the IPsec
>  > stack would go into an unterminating recursion.
> 
> Presumably the IKE daemon would change the policy for the
> communication endpoints it is using.
> 
> -- 
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>


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