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Re: [IPsec] Avoiding Authentication Header (AH)

Jack Kohn <kohn.jack@gmail.com> Tue, 03 January 2012 00:21 UTC

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From: Jack Kohn <kohn.jack@gmail.com>
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And last but certainly not the least, why cant somebody use ESP-NULL
in the tunnel mode to protect the IP headers (including FIPS-188 IP
option that i have never seen anyone ever using).

Yours,

Jack

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:25 AM, RJ Atkinson <rja.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 02  Jan 2012, at 18:25 , Jack Kohn wrote:
>>> Similar IPv6 examples exist.
>>
>> And i would like to know what those are.
>>
>> What about IPv6?
>
> As I noted, a range of examples exist for IPv6,
> and another range of examples exist for IPv4.
>
> If one is inclined to study further, one possible
> starting place is the IANA registries of IP options
> and optional headers.  Most, but sadly not all,
> currently defined IPv4 and IPv6 options are listed
> by IANA in various registries:
>
>        <http://www.iana.org>
>
> Yours,
>
> Ran
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