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Re: same SPI/different exchange



Bill Sommerfeld writes:
 > > What is the intended behavior of IKE if you
 > > receive a proposal for a SPI which already exists?
 > 
 > If this happens, the peer is probably buggy ..

   Really? Doesn't this happen as a natural consequence of
   retransmissions? 

 > > Should the old one be deinstalled and the new one installed?
 > 
 > This sounds like the robust thing to do; I'd want to be careful to
 > ensure that the old and new instances were treated as "different"
 > (from the point of view any caching which might be going on..)

   Right. They could change proposals, etc too.

	  Mike


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