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Date:      Sun, 12 May 2002 12:06:15 +0200
From:      quak@mydiax.ch
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   IPSEC: is ipcomp broken in 4.5-stable ?
Message-ID:  <200205121006.g4CA6FM01637@dubb05h07-0.dplanet.ch>

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Greetings,

Is there anyone who have gotten the ipsec compression (ipcomp) working in t=
he 4.5-stable ??

We try to establish a transport compression between 2 machines with followi=
ng setkey setup

Box 1 (192.168.20.1)

add 192.168.20.1 192.168.10.1 ipcomp 2010 -C deflate;
add 192.168.10.1 192.168.20.1 ipcomp 1020 -C deflate;

spdadd 192.168.20.1 192.168.10.1 any -P out ipsec ipcomp/transport//require;
spdadd 192.168.10.1 192.168.20.1 any -P in ipsec ipcomp/transport//require;

Box 2 (192.168.10.1)

add 192.168.20.1 192.168.10.1 ipcomp 2010 -C deflate;
add 192.168.10.1 192.168.20.1 ipcomp 1020 -C deflate;

spdadd 192.168.10.1 192.168.20.1 any -P out ipsec ipcomp/transport//require;
spdadd 192.168.20.1 192.168.10.1 any -P in ipsec ipcomp/transport//require;

Now we can ping both machines, but as soon as we begin doing a simple ftp t=
ransfer from box1 to box2, the transfer will *always* hang up at the 34816 =
bytes transferred.

There seems to be some mess in the compression / decompression mechanism, b=
ecause if we add a racoon to this mix (Default configuration, no changes to=
 racoon.conf, just psk.txt entries on both boxes) the transfers suddenly be=
gin to work better, that is: we infact get some major speed boost, but it c=
omes in waves, time to time boxes will spit out something like=20

ipcomp_decompress: inflate(Z_FINISH): unknown error (-2) and transfer will =
stall for 3-6 seconds, the proceed again.

Also, the setkey does not accept lzs as an compression option. man setkey s=
ays that it should.

What is going on ?

Regards

Kirill

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