Re: [IPSEC] Use xfrm_rcv for xfrm tunnel packets

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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 05:57:52PM +0400, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
> 
> Bits of saddr saved in spi field are supposed to be just hashing helper,
> allowing to avoid hashing all the tunnels of all the tunnels ending
> at our host and, hence, having one destination address, at one hash bucket.
> 
> IPv6 should do full check for saddr and can use some folded hash value
> of saddr as spi.

That would be good.  The problem right now is that only daddr is used
as a key in xfrm_state_lookup.  If we use both saddr/daddr then we can
even set spi to zero if we use the saddr in the spi_hash too.
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