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Re: [IPsec] Working Group LC: draft-ietf-ipsecme-ipsec-ha-03

From: Jean-Michel Combes <jeanmichel.combes_at_nospam>
Date: Thu May 27 2010 - 10:32:59 GMT
To: Yoav Nir <ynir@checkpoint.com>

Hi again,

2010/5/27 Yoav Nir <ynir@checkpoint.com>:
> How about the following text?
>
> 3.8  Allocation of SPIs
>   SPIs for child and IKE SAs MUST be unique with the same peer. However, in
>   a cluster, both members may create SAs and assign SPIs to them, so a
>   collision is possible. We believe that peers should not be required to
>   accept duplicate SPIs for different SAs, and that this needs to be
>   prevented by the cluster members by some out-of-scope method.

It's fine for me.

Best regards.

JMC.

>
> Yoav
>
> -----Original Message-----
> <snip/>
>
> 3.  The Problem Statement
>
> <JMC>
> I didn't see anything about potential collisions (e.g. SPI for a
> specific SA on a member of the cluster is already used on another
> member) during a failover: is such an issue out of scope?
> <JMC>
>
> <snip/>
>
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