Re: [IPSEC] AH authentication failure

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I am using 2.6.0-test kernel.

Sachin Sant wrote:
> 
> I am trying to use IPSEC [ AH / hmac-md5 algo ] with IPv6. I don't see
> any problem with the ICMP and UDP traffic with IPsec enabled. But i am
> having trouble making the TCP traffic work. Everytime i use a TCP
> application i get lots of "ipsec AH Authentication error" in my
> /var/log/messages . I also find that the packets containing TCP data are
> getting fragmented.
> 
> After some debugging it seems that in tcp_v6_connect(), np->opt is NULL
> therefore ext_header_len is 0. Thus AH header doesn't get accounted for.
> Then, later in tcp_v6_xmit(), np->opt which is still NULL, is passed to
> ip6_xmit(). Because opt is NULL in ip6_xmit(), head_room does not get
> calculated for extension headers, i.e. AH, nor does ipv6_pushfrag_opts()
> get done to add AH header to packet being built. Only the ipv6 header
> gets added in ip6_xmit() and accounted for in TCP. TCP believes it has
> completed its job and everything is accounted for space-wise in the
> packet. Thus, later, when the output function gets run, it ends up
> adding AH header and fragmenting packet.
> 
> I am not sure what is suppose to set the ipv6_txoptions on the socket,
> such that np->opt actually contains the info that is needed. Or if
> np->opt is NULL then perhaps something else is suppose to be done to
> obtain the information?
> 
> Any ideas ??
> 
> Thanks
> -Sachin
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