On (03/12/08 08:54), James Carlson wrote:
> 
> Even if tcpm-tcp-auth-opt gets deployed, I'd expect that it's really
> just a "special" for BGP and related routing protocols that use TCP
> (such as LDP and perhaps the new transport options for RSVP and PIM),
> and not a general-purpose connection protection mechanism.  The keying
> issues put it out of reach of the usual applications.  You need a
> small group of manually keyed systems.  It's "high maintenance."

The alternatives to manual keying that were discussed yesterday were
even  higher maintenance: ideas tossed out included having key-exchange
mechanisms similar to the ipsec-ike relationship. It wasn't clear
to me, at least, that this was any simpler than just using ipsec itself. 

--Sowmini

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