Re: Fw: Rationale for policy check procedure

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On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 05:26:40PM +1000, herbert wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, let's think simpler: what policy do you set on output?
> > Why is the symmetric reflection of this policy on input not enough?
> 
> Indeed, the same problem probably exists on output.
> 
> It's sufficient from the kernel's point of view.  But it makes the KM's

Actually, there is asymmetry here.  On the out path, we call
ip_route_output_key recursively in bundle_create which handles
nested SAs correctly.

There is no such recursion in policy_check for inbound packets.
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