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Date:      Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:31:17 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@vicor.com>, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Racoon question
Message-ID:  <20020813203117.GD5009@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208122240080.13960-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
References:  <20020813052619.GD1675@blossom.cjclark.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208122240080.13960-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:42:42PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
[snip]

> > This actually is not the problem. IKE/IPsec implementations have to be
> > smart enough to handle the negotiations "OOB."
> 
> So how does racoon talk "OOB"? does it add it's own SA?
> how does it stop it's own packets from being thrown away at  the 
> far end when they are not encrypted correctly for the transport layer 
> ipsec?

I believe racoon(8) does it by forcing a "bypass" policy on the socket
it opens for the ISAKMP negotiations.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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