IPSEC documentation

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Wed Dec 28 10:50:40 PST 2005


Brian Candler wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 04:26:43PM +0100, Eric Masson wrote:
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>>gif/gre tunnels and ipsec transport mode are quite convenient when
>>associated with dynamic routing protocols.
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>OK, I'll buy gif + IPSEC transport mode as an option. [Although in that
>case, perhaps what you want is an external IPSEC tunnel mode implementation
>which attaches to a 'tun' device. That's yet another category which I hadn't
>even considered]
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I use ppp (mpd) over UDP over ipsec transport mode. That gives you a 
"ng0" interface
for the tunnel. (netgraph pseudo interface)

>I still think that gif + IPSEC tunnel mode (as currently documented) is not
>a good approach, especially if it's the *only* mode of operation to be
>documented and hence implicitly recommended as the 'right' way to do it.
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