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Re: Notification payload in IKE

Hi, Saket
At 10:47 AM 9/17/02 +0530, Saket Dandawate wrote:

>     Notification Payload is used only to notify the other peer what went
>wrong. But the field Notification Data is present.
>My questions?
>
>1. Or is it necessary to send notification Data?

It is not mandatory in most of the cases. But it is always good if we can 
send and receive(and process) notiy or informational payloads.

>2.  how do we send notification data? Any Standard way since rfc 2409
>doesn't speak on any particular format to be followed for sending
>Notification Data?

Through the informational exchange.

And the notification  payload is defined in RFC2408.

-ramana