Re: [dhcwg] Use of IPsec between relay agents and servers

Ralph Meyer <rme@hycomat.co.uk> Thu, 20 September 2001 08:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Use of IPsec between relay agents and servers
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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:59:38 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010919171918.03b9b840@funnel.cisco.com> from "Ralph Droms" at Sep 19, 2001 05:21:22 PM
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Why not removing relay agents at all, as proposed in 
"draft-prigent-dhcpv6-threats-00.txt(section 4)". 
With a site local prefix, that can only be used 
to reach the dhcp server. This prefix can predefinded
or advertised over RAs. 

Ralpm M.


> 
> I'm about to add the text to specify the use of IPsec between relay agents 
> and servers in DHCPv6.  Any security experts out there want to volunteer to 
> devise and write up a standard mechanism; or, shall I just specify the use 
> of IPsec and reference RFC 2401?
> 
> - Ralph
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