[IPsec] P2P-VPN - Side Meeting - Announcement

2011-11-16 Thread Yoav Nir
Posting again with a different subject so that this doesn't drown in the other back and forth. Please do not reply to this message. Hi. Steve has come up with a formulation for the subject for discussion tonight: In an environment with many IPsec gateways and remote clients that share an

Re: [IPsec] P2P VPN - Side Meeting

2011-11-16 Thread Frederic Detienne
You are mixing everything up. It is too much work to correct you over email. I will try to help you at the meeting. regards, fred On 16 Nov 2011, at 15:35, Yoav Nir wrote: OK. Routing protocols are not security protocols. That's fine. Neither is HTTP. BGPSEC and SIDR implement

Re: [IPsec] P2P VPN - Side Meeting

2011-11-16 Thread Stephen Hanna
I think we will benefit greatly if we focus tonight's meeting mainly on discussion of and perhaps agreement on the PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED. Comparison and analysis of proposed solutions should wait until we have agreed on the problem statement and the requirements derived from that. And, as we've

Re: [IPsec] P2P VPN - Side Meeting

2011-11-16 Thread Yoav Nir
OK. A dumber but more practical question: Do you have any idea how we can get microphones? The projector is indeed here, but the microphones seem to be missing. Keeping the audio stream running all night doesn't help if the mikes are gone... On Nov 16, 2011, at 7:13 PM, Stephen Hanna wrote:

Re: [IPsec] Does ESP provide all functionality offered by AH?

2011-11-16 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Vilhelm Jutvik wrote: As for the (apparently widely held) belief that transport mode is redundant I would like to voice my opinion in defense of it: Tunnel mode incurs an overhead due to the extra IP header. In the case of IPv6 that overhead will be over 40 bytes and will

Re: [IPsec] P2P VPN - Side Meeting

2011-11-16 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Frederic Detienne wrote: And like I said earlier, the amount of negotiation when there are multiple prefixes to protect is limited to one. With modern ipsec tunneling (got to love that), there is still a lot of negotiation going on. We are talking about potentially

Re: [IPsec] P2P-VPN - Side Meeting - Announcement

2011-11-16 Thread Nico Williams
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: Steve has come up with a formulation for the subject for discussion tonight: Thank you. That synthesis is short and clear and helped me cut through the otherwise too-long thread. Nico --

Re: [IPsec] P2P VPN - Side Meeting

2011-11-16 Thread Michael Richardson
Mike == Mike Sullenberger m...@cisco.com writes: Mike We use other tunnel mechanisms (GRE), because IPsec tunneling Mike mode is lacking in functionality. For example, when you use Mike GRE for the tunneling you also reduce the IPsec SA's that are Mike needed to describe the

Re: [IPsec] P2P VPN - Side Meeting

2011-11-16 Thread Yoav Nir
On Nov 17, 2011, at 2:17 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: Mike I am not sure where you are getting a set of extended Mike access-lists. There aren't any extended access-lists added. Mike If a packet is routed through the tunnel it is encapsulated Mike and then encrypted. There

Re: [IPsec] P2P VPN - Side Meeting

2011-11-16 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Yoav Nir wrote: Not necessarily. If your device drops packets that come through the wrong tunnel, you're safe. Typically in a complex network you will allow multiple paths through the overlay network, and then some spoofing can happen. So you want privacy, not security.

Re: [IPsec] P2P VPN - Side Meeting

2011-11-16 Thread Yoav Nir
On Nov 17, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Paul Wouters wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Yoav Nir wrote: Not necessarily. If your device drops packets that come through the wrong tunnel, you're safe. Typically in a complex network you will allow multiple paths through the overlay network, and then some

Re: [IPsec] Does ESP provide all functionality offered by AH?

2011-11-16 Thread Tero Kivinen
Vilhelm Jutvik writes: ESP doesn't protect the immutable parts of the IPv6 header nor those of any extension header. Both source as well as IP destination field can be verified by comparing them to the information found in the associated SA's traffic selector, but extension headers can be

Re: [IPsec] Does ESP provide all functionality offered by AH?

2011-11-16 Thread Mike Sullenberger
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Vilhelm Jutvik wrote: As for the (apparently widely held) belief that transport mode is redundant I would like to voice my opinion in defense of it: Tunnel mode incurs an overhead due to the extra IP header. In the case of IPv6 that overhead will be over 40 bytes and will