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Re: revised IPsec processing model



On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 07:59:27PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> 	by introducing "virtual interface" and switching m->m_pkthdr.rcvif
> 	based on the virtual interface, you will become unable to identify
> 	peer correctly - after IPsec processing, both "fe80::1%segment1" and
> 	"fe80::1%segment2" would become "fe80::1%ipsec".  providing 1-by-1
> 	mapping between virtual interface and real interface does not provide
> 	a solution, since you will now see non-IPsec traffic as sent from
> 	"fe80::1%segment1" and IPsec traffic as sent from "fe80::1%ipsec1",
> 	and upper layer will get confused.

I don't think the 'virtual interface' needs to replace the
m_pkthdr.rcvif.  The virtual interface can just be attached as some
kind of mbuf tag.

However, I don't see a difference between having the VID
as a special selectors in a single SPD and having mutiple SPDs
selected by VID.

-m