Re: is manual keying mandatory

Bronislav Kavsan <bkavsan@ire-ma.com> Thu, 19 March 1998 13:59 UTC

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I like Manual Keying and all the benefits of it - and I think it deserves
SHOULD or MAY. I don't love at the extent of a MUST ;-)

Roy Pereira wrote:

> Is manual keying a required feature of IPSec?
> In other words, if you do not support manual keying then are you
> IPSec-compliant or not?
>
> There seams to bea bit of confusion surrounding this topic and I would
> like to see what people think.



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