Antony Antony <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> In the original proposal it was clear, as the reserved SPI values were
    >> used.  Am I missing anything?

    > For a minimal use case it may work; however, for more generic use
    > cases, such as sending multiple requests simultaneously from multiple
    > applications, would it work? How would ESP Ping responses correlate to
    > multiple instances sending ESP Ping from a sender? I feel the document
    > might need to define a specific payload format. This format would help
    > us correlate responses with their respective requests, the ESP ping ID
    > and sequnce number proposed in

I think we should define something for SPI=7/8.
(I'm not actually certain we should use two SPI numbers.  There are pluses
and minuses here)

I think that the problem ESP PING for a negotiated SA is rather a different
problem, and that while we might re-use the packet format, I think it's a
significantly more complicated. (Because it does more)

I think that something with proto=59 might be right, but there are
other choices, and I think that it might turn out that we are actually
defining some kind of ESP-dead-peer-detection mechanism.  That we should
simply have the kernel report receipt of PING/discard packets (on SA #1234)
to the IKE daemon, and let it do the correlation.


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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
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