is manual keying mandatory

Roy Pereira <rpereira@TimeStep.com> Wed, 18 March 1998 21:03 UTC

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From: Roy Pereira <rpereira@TimeStep.com>
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Subject: is manual keying mandatory
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 16:15:28 -0500
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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.