[pisa] Re: udp-problems with hip

  • From: Wolfram Fischer <papierfalter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pisa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:50:43 +0200

Hi Miika,

> I fixed some hip encapsulation on udp related problems which seems to be
> also available on the latest midauth branch. However, I think you are
> talking about missing ESP packets here with "conntest-client-hip udp".
> That problem is related to IPsec, not hipd.
> Linux IPsec does not implement queuing for IPsec, so the first UDP
> packets might get dropped. The assumption in linux IPsec is that
> transport layer protocols implement their own retransmission mechanisms.
> This is not true with conntest-client-hip.. feel free to implement one
> if you have time :)

This sounds very promising, I just wonder, why it sometimes works on the
first try and sometimes not!
Fortunately I think I only need to take care for the handshake - so I'll
give an implementation a try ^^.

Thank you very much!
  Wolf

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