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RE: Do we actually need dynamic ports?





 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Jan Vilhuber [mailto:vilhuber@cisco.com]
 > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 5:29 PM
 > To: Michael Choung Shieh
 > Cc: Tero Kivinen; ipsec@lists.tislabs.com; Paul Hoffman / VPNC
 > Subject: RE: Do we actually need dynamic ports?
 > 
 > 
 > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Michael Choung Shieh wrote:
 > 
 > >
 > > Doing extra IKE to creat a new sa DURING application will 
 > introduce extra
 > > latency and it may cause packet drop or retransmit.  It's 
 > probably not
 > > preferred if every FTP put/get will delay one or two 
 > seconds when passing
 > > through IKE.
 > >
 > 
 > I don't think I'm going to reopen that discussion. We're talking about
 > the option of:
 > 
 > a) negotiate an 'update' to an SA
 > or
 > b) negotiate a new (expanded) SA and delete the old one
 > 
 > In both cases you need an active phase 1 IKE SA. If you still have one
 > around, no extra expense is incurred. If not, you'll need to add one.
 > 
 > Doing this without negotiatiing something wasn't one of the proposed
 > options.

proposed where? - I do not see it in the requirements document.
Are u implying the draft from pyada and you?

The requirement for minimizing the latency seems a genuine one,
particulary when using service based vpns - since the hit is now
potentially on every new connection.


 > 
 > jan
 > 
 > 
 > > --------------------------------------------
 > > Michael Shieh
 > > --------------------------------------------
 > >
 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: Jan Vilhuber [mailto:vilhuber@cisco.com]
 > > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:11 PM
 > > To: Tero Kivinen
 > > Cc: ipsec@lists.tislabs.com; Paul Hoffman / VPNC
 > > Subject: Re: Do we actually need dynamic ports?
 > >
 > >
 > > I don't mind that. I just had to go re-read ikev2 and realized that
 > > you CAN in fact to multiple discontiguous ranges (or ports 
 > as well as
 > > IP addresses, by simply having multiple 'Traffic Selector
 > > Substructure' sections (7.13.1 Traffic Selector 
 > Substructure). Cool. I
 > > like it.
 > >
 > > The only minor difference (and I'm not saying it's 
 > important) is that
 > > you have to go through 'more' computation to delete and add 
 > a new SA,
 > > rather than adding to it, but that may be minor and not an issue at
 > > all. In particular: using up 'precious' entropy by having to come up
 > > with new key material, having to create a new SPI (and 
 > associated IKE
 > > delete payloads), and possibly having to rebuild some internal tree
 > > for the SA's (depends on implementation). Simply adding 
 > some selectors
 > > to an existing SA and keeping keys and SPI, *seems* easier, but may
 > > not actually make that much difference.
 > >
 > > Paul proposed using a semantic where using the same 'SPI' in the
 > > proposal means that you are adding to the existing SPI. That could
 > > bear a closer look as well, although I think there's room for error
 > > there..
 > >
 > > Negotiating a new SA, with new SPI, deleting the old one is 
 > certainly
 > > 'clean' even though it seems to involve a lot of steps. Are we going
 > > to try and fold some (not all) of the jenkins rekey-draft 
 > into IKEv2,
 > > so that rekey behaviour is spelled out precisely? That 
 > would certainly
 > > help.
 > >
 > > jan
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Tero Kivinen wrote:
 > >
 > > > vilhuber@cisco.com (Jan Vilhuber) writes:
 > > > > This is no different than creating a second SA, I 
 > suppose. You want
 > > > > traffic for the FTP data channel? Create a new SA for
 > > > > it. Alternatively, and this is what Pyda's and my draft 
 > does, pass an
 > > > > indicator that identifies the previous SA, and ADD to it. Saves
 > > > > memory, at almost no additional cost.
 > > >
 > > > Why have a special case for ADD and DELETE, why not 
 > simply renegotiate
 > > > new SA with new set of selectors (i.e add new selectors, 
 > remove the
 > > > ones you do not want), and when that new SA is ready, 
 > delete the old
 > > > SA. I.e simply make ADD and DELETE to be rekey of the existing SA.
 > > >
 > > > For IKEv1 you could not do that, as there was no way to 
 > express the
 > > > set of selectors, but with TS we can do that, so now that is an
 > > > option.
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 > >  --
 > > Jan Vilhuber                                            
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 > 
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 > Jan Vilhuber                                            
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 > Cisco Systems, San Jose                                     
 > (408) 527-0847
 > 
 >