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Re: ipsec error protocol



At 3:25 AM +0100 2/1/01, Frédéric Detienne wrote:
>Stephen Kent wrote:
>>  >Obviously, no retransmission of any sort nor any expectation in the
>>  >order of arrival (replay detection stays as it is): we just ack the
>>  >biggest packet ID received (piggy backed if possible).
>>
>>  I have to admit that, at this point in the exchange (and trying to
>>  deal with threads o other lists at the same time) that I'm lost. What
>>  problem are we trying to solve? Is it the loss of state at the other
>>  IPsec device, or the parallel crypto chip and sequence number problem
>>  that Dan raised?
>
>the loss of state (and only that).

Thanks for the clarification.

Steve