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

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On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 12:23:14AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> And if NETLINK app creates req_id with value > 255, what do
> we report to PF_KEY applications?

We'll report the lower 16 bits.  We already have other places where
things set by the NETLINK interface is not visible to PFKEY.  For
example, the SA selectors are not completely visible to PFKEY.

> 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.

OK.
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