On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 09:23 -0600, Joy Latten wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 10:41 -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hmmm, if I am following this correctly we are going to need to manually 
> > setup a
> > SA for every context we want to send over loopback because racoon can't
> > negotiate with itself?  If that's the case I think we really need to get 
> > racoon
> > working for loopback because I don't believe the current solution is very
> > practical ...
> > 
> I am not fully understanding something... what will labeled ipsec over
> loopback be used for?  
> 
> Someone asked on ipsec-tools list and I could not come up with an
> explanation. 

To provide the peer label information on loopback connections or
datagrams.  Same as using NetLabel on loopback.

But if Venkat is successful in wrapping the sp with a union that can
carry the secid directly for loopback traffic, then we wouldn't need it
at that point (but RHEL 5 likely requires the use of either NetLabel or
labeled ipsec over loopback to provide labeling).

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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