HIPL

packet that initializes handshake is dropped

Bug #680488 reported by Samuel Richter

This bug report was converted into a question: question #138856: packet that initializes handshake is dropped.

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HIPL
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Bug Description

Starting hipd on two machines and pinging the HIT of one from the other leads to the first packet lost on otherwise successful connection.

I was told this packet was once buffered in the kernel, but this feature was somehow lost.

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Miika Komu (miika-iki) wrote :

This is a "feature" in the Linux IPsec (see the first bullet):

http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/net_todo.html

Linux IPsec assumes transport layer handles packet retransmissions. IMHO, this is a fair assumption except that it can cause unnecessary delay to e.g. TCP connections, leading to lowered user experience.

So either it should reported to some other bugzilla or the description of this bug should be changed to "hipfw lacks a packet cache mechanism".

Changed in hipl:
importance: Undecided → Low
René Hummen (rene-hummen)
summary: - packet that initializes handover is dropped
+ packet that initializes handshake is dropped
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René Hummen (rene-hummen) wrote :

This is not a bug in HIPL. Nevertheless, this information is useful, so we should keep it. "Answers" seems to be a far better place for this purpose.

Changed in hipl:
status: New → Invalid
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