[Swan-dev] why, in ah-pluto-01, does libreswan emit an ESP proposal

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Fri Oct 5 01:37:07 UTC 2018


On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> It turns out that, when phase2=ah (i.e., POLICY_AUTHENTICATE), IKEv1's
> defaults, since before the start of time have been:
>
> static struct db_prop_conj ah_props[] = {
>    { AD(ah_pc) },
> #ifdef SUPPORT_ESP_NULL
>    { AD(espnull_pc) }
> #endif
>    };

I see it goes back to before 2.0.0 (but after freeswan-2.0.6)

I guess it is cute to propose both so it could work in a migration can of
way to phase out AH for ESP-NULL, but I guess we're long past that point.

> Should the second line be dropped?

Yes.

Paul


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