Re: Fw: Rationale for policy check procedure

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Hello!

> A has an ESP transport SA to B, and on top of that, A has an ESP tunnel
> SA to C via B:
> 
> A <------> B <------> C
>   <transp>
>   <------tunnel----->
> 
> Normally packets coming from B must be protected by the transport SA.
> However, packets arriving from C are accepted even if they only possess
> the tunnel SA, bypassing the transport SA between A and B.

I think you misplaced something in the picture, because transport SA
between A and B cannot have any relationship to traffic from C.
Well, you can guess, I did not understand the picture. :-)

Anyway, let's think simpler: what policy do you set on output?
Why is the symmetric reflection of this policy on input not enough?

Alexey
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