[IPsec] 答复: New Version Notification for draft-xu-ipsecme-esp-in-udp-lb-00.txt

Hi Yoav,

The load-balancing mechanism as described in this draft would ensure a given traffic flow to be forwarded over a certain path. In other words, there is no disordering issue. The destination port is assigned by IANA while the source port is dynamically calculated by the ingress of the IPsec/UDP tunnel. Furthermore, a given traffic flow would be forwarded over a certain path and therefore this is no disordering issue. As for why do we need a new port, I had attempted to reply in another email.

Best regards,
XIaohu

发件人: Yoav Nir [mailto:ynir.ietf@gmail.com]
发送时间: 2016年11月1日 15:31
收件人: Xuxiaohu
抄送: ipsec@ietf.org
主题: Re: [IPsec] New Version Notification for draft-xu-ipsecme-esp-in-udp-lb-00.txt

Hi, Xiaohu

A few comments. Actually, they’re more like questions.

  1.  How are IPsec SAs mapped to UDP pseudo-connections?  Is it a 1:1 mapping between SPI and source port?
  2.  If now, how do you deal with the packet reordering that the load balancer will do? IPsec requires ordered or nearly-ordered delivery.
  3.  How is this negotiated?  In IKE? Prior agreement?
  4.  Why do we need a new port?  What goes wrong if the packets go to port 4500?

Thanks

Yoav
On 1 Nov 2016, at 3:45, Xuxiaohu <xuxiaohu@huawei.com<mailto:xuxiaohu@huawei.com>> wrote:

Hi all,

Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

Best regards,
Xiaohu

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发件人: internet-drafts@ietf.org<mailto:internet-drafts@ietf.org> [mailto:internet-drafts@ietf.org]
发送时间: 2016年10月31日 19:15
收件人: Xuxiaohu; zhangdacheng; Xialiang (Frank)
主题: New Version Notification for draft-xu-ipsecme-esp-in-udp-lb-00.txt

A new version of I-D, draft-xu-ipsecme-esp-in-udp-lb-00.txt
has been successfully submitted by Liang Xia and posted to the IETF repository.

Name:      draft-xu-ipsecme-esp-in-udp-lb
Revision:  00
Title:     Encapsulating IPsec ESP in UDP for Load-balancing
Document date:    2016-10-31
Group:     Individual Submission
Pages:     7
URL:
https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-xu-ipsecme-esp-in-udp-lb-00.txt
Status:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-xu-ipsecme-esp-in-udp-lb/
Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-xu-ipsecme-esp-in-udp-lb-00

Abstract:
 IPsec Virtual Private Network (VPN) is widely used by enterprises to
 interconnect their geographical dispersed branch office locations
 across IP Wide Area Network (WAN). To fully utilize the bandwidth
 available in IP WAN, load balancing of traffic between different
 IPsec VPN sites over Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) and/or Link
 Aggregation Group (LAG) within IP WAN is attractive to those
 enterprises deploying IPsec VPN solutions. This document defines a
 method to encapsulate IPsec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
 packets inside UDP packets for improving load-balancing of IPsec
 tunneled traffic. In addition, this encapsulation is also applicable
 to some special multi-tenant data center network environment where
 the overlay tunnels need to be secured.

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