Re: [anonsec] Comments on connection latching draft

Paul Wouters <paul@xelerance.com> Fri, 07 December 2007 04:55 UTC

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From: Paul Wouters <paul@xelerance.com>
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Nicolas Williams wrote:

> To help describe the process by which latches are created and torn down.
>
> > Why must implementations make available nat state?  I'm unconvinced
> > that is well enough defined to actually be useful.
>
> I think this is Michael's requirement.

I think this might have to do with detecting multiple clients behind
the same NAT router.

> >    o  Any IPsec channel created with a given peer while another
> >       distinct, established IPsec channel exists with the same source
> >       and destination addresses SHOULD be bound to the same peer.
> >
> >
> > How does this interact with nats?
>
> Hmmm, badly :)

Why not make it souce and destination address plus port?

>     o  Create a connection latch object for a ULP 5-tuple (local and
>        remote address, protocol and local and remote port numbers).

Like here.

Paul
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