Re: [Design] Linux 2.5 IPsec patch for FreeSWAN 2003/07/05

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On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 06:47:24PM -0400, Sam Sgro wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Sam Sgro wrote:
> 
> > Upon a subsequent restart of ipsec, I briefly experienced the same phenomenon,
> > but then it cleared itself up after 10 seconds or so.
> 
> Looking at a tcpdump, it appears these errors occur during the IKE
> negotiations.

Yes, the acquire wait in xfrm_lookup is fairly broken right now.  In
particular, TCP connections will always fail with EGAIN.  I believe
that Alexey Kuznetsov is working on a better system akin to ARP resolution.

Perhaps Alexey can tell us how that is progressing?

In the mean time of course the user will have to do the retrying :)
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