Re: [IPSEC] Use 32-bit reqid's

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On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:24:04 +1000
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 12:05:12AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > PFKEY is not an ABI we can change Herbert.
> > I thought Alexey and I taught you that already.
> 
> Fine.  What about this path that only makes 32-bit reqid's available
> for NETLINK?

And if NETLINK app creates req_id with value > 255, what do
we report to PF_KEY applications?

> PS Almost everybody's PFKEY implementation does flows/policies
> differently :)

But ours pretty much must follow that of KAME project.
We may extend it, like we have for things like UDP encapsulation,
but existing interfaces must behave compatibly to what KAME
expects.

If we are going to deviate from this, we had better have a very
good reason for doing so.
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