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Re: [RPSEC] rate limiting management traffic, redux



On vrijdag, apr 25, 2003, at 22:22 Europe/Amsterdam, Stephen Kent wrote:

I agree here, but that's not that I was getting at. What I meant was that it makes sense to somehow make this new scheme part of the larger world of IPsec rather than create a new, independent protocol that handles this.

OK, I understand. Let me say why I think it is very unlikely for that to happen. IPsec is trying to remove complexity from implementations, whereas adding this functionality would add complexity.
Ok, not doing this is less complex than doing it. The real question is whether implementing the pre-authentication is more complex with or without IPsec. I think it could very well be the former.

So if you want to implement an IPv6 option, be sure to consult with a good number of vendors first to make sure you're not shooting yourself in the foot. Hopefully this problem will go away at some point but I gather it's very real now.

OK. Then we just need to be defined as "not strange" :-)
Good luck doing that for the installed base.  (-:

But maybe we don't really have to solve this. Would it be extremely hard to implement a feature that automatically stops traffic being _routed_ towards a router or management station if the management or routing session with this station is down? (Locally source packet should still be allowed through so sessions can be reestablished.)

since a correspondent does not always know when its peer has crashed and recovered, our goal is to have a way to re-initialize without involving the CPU, to avoid the problems you cite.
Re-initialize without involving the CPU... Talk about neat tricks!

Detecting failures is usually done with periodic keepalives. I don't see why this can't work here.

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