Re: Ipsec - PF_KEY and set_policy
- From: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:32:55 +0900
At Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:13:02 +0800,
blue wrote:
And expanding on this just a bit, there is a difference between a
As far as I know, setkey is used for IPsec SP and SA configuration.
ipsec_set_policy() could transfer a string to "policy request", which is
defined in RFC 2367 PF_KEY. Internally, setkey() will call
ipsec_set_policy() to construct the message then send it down to the
kernel. However, ipsec_set_policy() is used only for SP, not SA.
policy (SP) and an association (SA) which is important to understand.
A policy describes something more general, such as "Between network A
and network B use an IPSEC ESP tunnel for all traffic." while an
association is an active communication channel like, "Between address
A and address B we have a tunnel using ESP with key X." There are two
databases in the kernel for this, a Security Policy Database which is
manipulated using the ipsec_set_policy() routing, and a Security
Association Database which is manipulated using direct calls to PF Key
sockets.
See RFC 2401 for a good intro to these concepts.
Best,
George
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