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Sam Leffler
21367f630d Change error codes returned by protocol operations when an inpcb is
marked INP_DROPPED or INP_TIMEWAIT:
o return ECONNRESET instead of EINVAL for close, disconnect, shutdown,
  rcvd, rcvoob, and send operations
o return ECONNABORTED instead of EINVAL for accept

These changes should reduce confusion in applications since EINVAL is
normally interpreted to mean an invalid file descriptor.  This change
does not conflict with POSIX or other standards I checked. The return
of EINVAL has always been possible but rare; it's become more common
with recent changes to the socket/inpcb handling and with finer-grained
locking and preemption.

Note: there are other instances of EINVAL for this state that were
      left unchanged; they should be reviewed.

Reviewed by:	rwatson, andre, ru
MFC after:	1 month
2006-11-22 17:16:54 +00:00
Andre Oppermann
7ff0b850a6 Make tcp_usr_send() free the passed mbufs on error in all cases as the
comment to it claims.

Sponsored by:	TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
2006-09-17 13:39:35 +00:00
Robert Watson
a152f8a361 Change semantics of socket close and detach. Add a new protocol switch
function, pru_close, to notify protocols that the file descriptor or
other consumer of a socket is closing the socket.  pru_abort is now a
notification of close also, and no longer detaches.  pru_detach is no
longer used to notify of close, and will be called during socket
tear-down by sofree() when all references to a socket evaporate after
an earlier call to abort or close the socket.  This means detach is now
an unconditional teardown of a socket, whereas previously sockets could
persist after detach of the protocol retained a reference.

This faciliates sharing mutexes between layers of the network stack as
the mutex is required during the checking and removal of references at
the head of sofree().  With this change, pru_detach can now assume that
the mutex will no longer be required by the socket layer after
completion, whereas before this was not necessarily true.

Reviewed by:	gnn
2006-07-21 17:11:15 +00:00
Stephan Uphoff
d915b28015 Fix race conditions on enumerating pcb lists by moving the initialization
( and where appropriate the destruction) of the pcb mutex to the init/finit
functions of the pcb zones.
This allows locking of the pcb entries and race condition free comparison
of the generation count.
Rearrange locking a bit to avoid extra locking operation to update the generation
count in in_pcballoc(). (in_pcballoc now returns the pcb locked)

I am planning to convert pcb list handling from a type safe to a reference count
model soon. ( As this allows really freeing the PCBs)

Reviewed by:	rwatson@, mohans@
MFC after:	1 week
2006-07-18 22:34:27 +00:00
Robert Watson
b4470c1639 In tcp6_usr_attach(), return immediately if SS_ISDISCONNECTED, to
avoid dereferencing an uninitialized inp variable.

Submitted by:	Michiel Boland <michiel at boland dot org>
MFC after:	1 month
2006-06-26 09:38:08 +00:00
Robert Watson
f2de87fec4 Push acquisition of pcbinfo lock out of tcp_usr_attach() into
tcp_attach() after the call to soreserve(), as it doesn't require
the global lock.  Rearrange inpcb locking here also.

MFC after:	1 month
2006-06-04 09:31:34 +00:00
Robert Watson
c78cbc7b1d Instead of calling tcp_usr_detach() from tcp_usr_abort(), break out
common pcb tear-down logic into tcp_detach(), which is called from
either.  Invoke tcp_drop() from the tcp_usr_abort() path rather than
tcp_disconnect(), as we want to drop it immediately not perform a
FIN sequence.  This is one reason why some people were experiencing
panics in sodealloc(), as the netisr and aborting thread were
simultaneously trying to tear down the socket.  This bug could often
be reproduced using repeated runs of the listenclose regression test.

MFC after:	3 months
PR:		96090
Reported by:	Peter Kostouros <kpeter at melbpc dot org dot au>, kris
Tested by:	Peter Kostouros <kpeter at melbpc dot org dot au>, kris
2006-04-24 08:20:02 +00:00
Robert Watson
e6e65783d6 Clarify comment on handling of non-timewait TCP states in
tcp_usr_detach().

MFC after:	3 months
2006-04-03 12:43:56 +00:00
Robert Watson
3d2d3ef434 After checking for SO_ISDISCONNECTED in tcp_usr_accept(), return
immediately rather than jumping to the normal output handling, which
assumes we've pulled out the inpcb, which hasn't happened at this
point (and isn't necessary).

Return ECONNABORTED instead of EINVAL when the inpcb has entered
INP_TIMEWAIT or INP_DROPPED, as this is the documented error value.

This may correct the panic seen by Ganbold.

MFC after:	1 month
Reported by:	Ganbold <ganbold at micom dot mng dot net>
2006-04-03 09:52:55 +00:00
Robert Watson
953b5606df During reformulation of tcp_usr_detach(), the call to initiate TCP
disconnect for fully connected sockets was dropped, meaning that if
the socket was closed while the connection was alive, it would be
leaked.  Structure tcp_usr_detach() so that there are two clear
parts: initiating disconnect, and reclaiming state, and reintroduce
the tcp_disconnect() call in the first part.

MFC after:	3 months
2006-04-02 16:42:51 +00:00
Robert Watson
34af7bae80 Properly handle an edge case previously not handled correctly: a
socket can have a tcp connection that has entered time wait
attached to it, in the event that shutdown() is called on the
socket and the FINs properly exchange before close().  In this
case we don't detach or free the inpcb, just leave the tcptw
detached and freed, but we must release the inpcb lock (which we
didn't previously).

MFC after:	3 months
2006-04-01 23:53:25 +00:00
Robert Watson
623dce13c6 Update TCP for infrastructural changes to the socket/pcb refcount model,
pru_abort(), pru_detach(), and in_pcbdetach():

- Universally support and enforce the invariant that so_pcb is
  never NULL, converting dozens of unnecessary NULL checks into
  assertions, and eliminating dozens of unnecessary error handling
  cases in protocol code.

- In some cases, eliminate unnecessary pcbinfo locking, as it is no
  longer required to ensure so_pcb != NULL.  For example, the receive
  code no longer requires the pcbinfo lock, and the send code only
  requires it if building a new connection on an otherwise unconnected
  socket triggered via sendto() with an address.  This should
  significnatly reduce tcbinfo lock contention in the receive and send
  cases.

- In order to support the invariant that so_pcb != NULL, it is now
  necessary for the TCP code to not discard the tcpcb any time a
  connection is dropped, but instead leave the tcpcb until the socket
  is shutdown.  This case is handled by setting INP_DROPPED, to
  substitute for using a NULL so_pcb to indicate that the connection
  has been dropped.  This requires the inpcb lock, but not the pcbinfo
  lock.

- Unlike all other protocols in the tree, TCP may need to retain access
  to the socket after the file descriptor has been closed.  Set
  SS_PROTOREF in tcp_detach() in order to prevent the socket from being
  freed, and add a flag, INP_SOCKREF, so that the TCP code knows whether
  or not it needs to free the socket when the connection finally does
  close.  The typical case where this occurs is if close() is called on
  a TCP socket before all sent data in the send socket buffer has been
  transmitted or acknowledged.  If INP_SOCKREF is found when the
  connection is dropped, we release the inpcb, tcpcb, and socket instead
  of flagging INP_DROPPED.

- Abort and detach protocol switch methods no longer return failures,
  nor attempt to free sockets, as the socket layer does this.

- Annotate the existence of a long-standing race in the TCP timer code,
  in which timers are stopped but not drained when the socket is freed,
  as waiting for drain may lead to deadlocks, or have to occur in a
  context where waiting is not permitted.  This race has been handled
  by testing to see if the tcpcb pointer in the inpcb is NULL (and vice
  versa), which is not normally permitted, but may be true of a inpcb
  and tcpcb have been freed.  Add a counter to test how often this race
  has actually occurred, and a large comment for each instance where
  we compare potentially freed memory with NULL.  This will have to be
  fixed in the near future, but requires is to further address how to
  handle the timer shutdown shutdown issue.

- Several TCP calls no longer potentially free the passed inpcb/tcpcb,
  so no longer need to return a pointer to indicate whether the argument
  passed in is still valid.

- Un-macroize debugging and locking setup for various protocol switch
  methods for TCP, as it lead to more obscurity, and as locking becomes
  more customized to the methods, offers less benefit.

- Assert copyright on tcp_usrreq.c due to significant modifications that
  have been made as part of this work.

These changes significantly modify the memory management and connection
logic of our TCP implementation, and are (as such) High Risk Changes,
and likely to contain serious bugs.  Please report problems to the
current@ mailing list ASAP, ideally with simple test cases, and
optionally, packet traces.

MFC after:	3 months
2006-04-01 16:36:36 +00:00
Robert Watson
bc725eafc7 Chance protocol switch method pru_detach() so that it returns void
rather than an error.  Detaches do not "fail", they other occur or
the protocol flags SS_PROTOREF to take ownership of the socket.

soclose() no longer looks at so_pcb to see if it's NULL, relying
entirely on the protocol to decide whether it's time to free the
socket or not using SS_PROTOREF.  so_pcb is now entirely owned and
managed by the protocol code.  Likewise, no longer test so_pcb in
other socket functions, such as soreceive(), which have no business
digging into protocol internals.

Protocol detach routines no longer try to free the socket on detach,
this is performed in the socket code if the protocol permits it.

In rts_detach(), no longer test for rp != NULL in detach, and
likewise in other protocols that don't permit a NULL so_pcb, reduce
the incidence of testing for it during detach.

netinet and netinet6 are not fully updated to this change, which
will be in an upcoming commit.  In their current state they may leak
memory or panic.

MFC after:	3 months
2006-04-01 15:42:02 +00:00
Robert Watson
ac45e92ff2 Change protocol switch pru_abort() API so that it returns void rather
than an int, as an error here is not meaningful.  Modify soabort() to
unconditionally free the socket on the return of pru_abort(), and
modify most protocols to no longer conditionally free the socket,
since the caller will do this.

This commit likely leaves parts of netinet and netinet6 in a situation
where they may panic or leak memory, as they have not are not fully
updated by this commit.  This will be corrected shortly in followup
commits to these components.

MFC after:      3 months
2006-04-01 15:15:05 +00:00
Maxime Henrion
e59898ff36 Fix a bunch of SYSCTL_INT() that should have been SYSCTL_ULONG() to
match the type of the variable they are exporting.

Spotted by:	Thomas Hurst <tom@hur.st>
MFC after:	3 days
2005-12-14 22:27:48 +00:00
Robert Watson
d374e81efd Push the assignment of a new or updated so_qlimit from solisten()
following the protocol pru_listen() call to solisten_proto(), so
that it occurs under the socket lock acquisition that also sets
SO_ACCEPTCONN.  This requires passing the new backlog parameter
to the protocol, which also allows the protocol to be aware of
changes in queue limit should it wish to do something about the
new queue limit.  This continues a move towards the socket layer
acting as a library for the protocol.

Bump __FreeBSD_version due to a change in the in-kernel protocol
interface.  This change has been tested with IPv4 and UNIX domain
sockets, but not other protocols.
2005-10-30 19:44:40 +00:00
Andre Oppermann
ef8fd90476 Remove unnecessary IPSEC includes.
MFC after:	2 weeks
Sponsored by:	TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
2005-08-23 14:42:40 +00:00
Hajimu UMEMOTO
a1f7e5f8ee scope cleanup. with this change
- most of the kernel code will not care about the actual encoding of
  scope zone IDs and won't touch "s6_addr16[1]" directly.
- similarly, most of the kernel code will not care about link-local
  scoped addresses as a special case.
- scope boundary check will be stricter.  For example, the current
  *BSD code allows a packet with src=::1 and dst=(some global IPv6
  address) to be sent outside of the node, if the application do:
    s = socket(AF_INET6);
    bind(s, "::1");
    sendto(s, some_global_IPv6_addr);
  This is clearly wrong, since ::1 is only meaningful within a single
  node, but the current implementation of the *BSD kernel cannot
  reject this attempt.

Submitted by:	JINMEI Tatuya <jinmei__at__isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
Obtained from:	KAME
2005-07-25 12:31:43 +00:00
Robert Watson
303939942c When aborting tcp_attach() due to a problem allocating or attaching the
tcpcb, lock the inpcb before calling in_pcbdetach() or in6_pcbdetach(),
as they expect the inpcb to be passed locked.

MFC after:	7 days
2005-06-01 12:14:56 +00:00
Robert Watson
e6e0b5ffd1 Assert tcbinfo lock, inpcb lock in tcp_disconnect().
Assert tcbinfo lock, inpcb lock in in tcp_usrclosed().

MFC after:	7 days
2005-06-01 12:08:15 +00:00
Robert Watson
7609aad7d9 Assert tcbinfo lock in tcp_attach(), as it is required; the caller
(tcp_usr_attach()) currently grabs it.

MFC after:	7 days
2005-06-01 11:44:43 +00:00
Paul Saab
2cdbfa66ee Replace t_force with a t_flag (TF_FORCEDATA).
Submitted by:   Raja Mukerji.
Reviewed by:    Mohan, Silby, Andre Opperman.
2005-05-21 00:38:29 +00:00
Robert Watson
b60d26c9b9 Remove now unused inirw variable from previous use of COMMON_END().
Reported by:	csjp
2005-05-01 14:01:38 +00:00
Peter Grehan
73fddedac8 Fix typo in last commit.
Approved by:	rwatson
2005-05-01 13:06:05 +00:00
Robert Watson
d1401c9000 Slide unlocking of the tcbinfo lock earlier in tcp_usr_send(), as it's
needed only for implicit connect cases.  Under load, especially on SMP,
this can greatly reduce contention on the tcbinfo lock.

NB: Ambiguities about the state of so_pcb need to be resolved so that
all use of the tcbinfo lock in non-implicit connection cases can be
eliminated.

Submited by:	Kazuaki Oda <kaakun at highway dot ne dot jp>
2005-05-01 11:11:38 +00:00
Sam Leffler
812d865346 eliminate extraneous null ptr checks
Noticed by:	Coverity Prevent analysis tool
2005-03-29 01:10:46 +00:00
Robert Watson
d2bc35ab29 In tcp_usr_send(), broaden coverage of the socket buffer lock in the
non-OOB case so that the sbspace() check is performed under the same
lock instance as the append to the send socket buffer.

MFC after:	1 week
2005-03-14 22:15:14 +00:00
Robert Watson
0daccb9c94 In the current world order, solisten() implements the state transition of
a socket from a regular socket to a listening socket able to accept new
connections.  As part of this state transition, solisten() calls into the
protocol to update protocol-layer state.  There were several bugs in this
implementation that could result in a race wherein a TCP SYN received
in the interval between the protocol state transition and the shortly
following socket layer transition would result in a panic in the TCP code,
as the socket would be in the TCPS_LISTEN state, but the socket would not
have the SO_ACCEPTCONN flag set.

This change does the following:

- Pushes the socket state transition from the socket layer solisten() to
  to socket "library" routines called from the protocol.  This permits
  the socket routines to be called while holding the protocol mutexes,
  preventing a race exposing the incomplete socket state transition to TCP
  after the TCP state transition has completed.  The check for a socket
  layer state transition is performed by solisten_proto_check(), and the
  actual transition is performed by solisten_proto().

- Holds the socket lock for the duration of the socket state test and set,
  and over the protocol layer state transition, which is now possible as
  the socket lock is acquired by the protocol layer, rather than vice
  versa.  This prevents additional state related races in the socket
  layer.

This permits the dual transition of socket layer and protocol layer state
to occur while holding locks for both layers, making the two changes
atomic with respect to one another.  Similar changes are likely require
elsewhere in the socket/protocol code.

Reported by:		Peter Holm <peter@holm.cc>
Review and fixes from:	emax, Antoine Brodin <antoine.brodin@laposte.net>
Philosophical head nod:	gnn
2005-02-21 21:58:17 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov
9945c0e21f o Add handling of an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address.
o Use SYSCTL_IN() macro instead of direct call of copyin(9).

Submitted by:	ume

o Move sysctl_drop() implementation to sys/netinet/tcp_subr.c where
most of tcp sysctls live.
o There are net.inet[6].tcp[6].getcred sysctls already, no needs in
a separate struct tcp_ident_mapping.

Suggested by:	ume
2005-02-14 07:37:51 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov
212a79b010 o Implement net.inet.tcp.drop sysctl and userland part, tcpdrop(8)
utility:

    The tcpdrop command drops the TCP connection specified by the
    local address laddr, port lport and the foreign address faddr,
    port fport.

Obtained from:	OpenBSD
Reviewed by:	rwatson (locking), ru (man page), -current
MFC after:	1 month
2005-02-06 10:47:12 +00:00
Warner Losh
c398230b64 /* -> /*- for license, minor formatting changes 2005-01-07 01:45:51 +00:00
Robert Watson
c8443a1dc0 Do export the advertised receive window via the tcpi_rcv_space field of
struct tcp_info.
2004-11-27 20:20:11 +00:00
Robert Watson
b8af5dfa81 Implement parts of the TCP_INFO socket option as found in Linux 2.6.
This socket option allows processes query a TCP socket for some low
level transmission details, such as the current send, bandwidth, and
congestion windows.  Linux provides a 'struct tcpinfo' structure
containing various variables, rather than separate socket options;
this makes the API somewhat fragile as it makes it dificult to add
new entries of interest as requirements and implementation evolve.
As such, I've included a large pad at the end of the structure.
Right now, relatively few of the Linux API fields are filled in, and
some contain no logical equivilent on FreeBSD.  I've include __'d
entries in the structure to make it easier to figure ou what is and
isn't omitted.  This API/ABI should be considered unstable for the
time being.
2004-11-26 18:58:46 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
756d52a195 Initialize struct pr_userreqs in new/sparse style and fill in common
default elements in net_init_domain().

This makes it possible to grep these structures and see any bogosities.
2004-11-08 14:44:54 +00:00
Andre Oppermann
c94c54e4df Remove RFC1644 T/TCP support from the TCP side of the network stack.
A complete rationale and discussion is given in this message
and the resulting discussion:

 http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4177C8AD.6060706

Note that this commit removes only the functional part of T/TCP
from the tcp_* related functions in the kernel.  Other features
introduced with RFC1644 are left intact (socket layer changes,
sendmsg(2) on connection oriented protocols)  and are meant to
be reused by a simpler and less intrusive reimplemention of the
previous T/TCP functionality.

Discussed on:	-arch
2004-11-02 22:22:22 +00:00
Robert Watson
a4f757cd5d White space cleanup for netinet before branch:
- Trailing tab/space cleanup
- Remove spurious spaces between or before tabs

This change avoids touching files that Andre likely has in his working
set for PFIL hooks changes for IPFW/DUMMYNET.

Approved by:	re (scottl)
Submitted by:	Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net>
2004-08-16 18:32:07 +00:00
David Malone
1f44b0a1b5 Get rid of the RANDOM_IP_ID option and make it a sysctl. NetBSD
have already done this, so I have styled the patch on their work:

        1) introduce a ip_newid() static inline function that checks
        the sysctl and then decides if it should return a sequential
        or random IP ID.

        2) named the sysctl net.inet.ip.random_id

        3) IPv6 flow IDs and fragment IDs are now always random.
        Flow IDs and frag IDs are significantly less common in the
        IPv6 world (ie. rarely generated per-packet), so there should
        be smaller performance concerns.

The sysctl defaults to 0 (sequential IP IDs).

Reviewed by:	andre, silby, mlaier, ume
Based on:	NetBSD
MFC after:	2 months
2004-08-14 15:32:40 +00:00
John-Mark Gurney
0aa8ce5012 compare pointer against NULL, not 0
when inpcb is NULL, this is no longer invalid since jlemon added the
tcp_twstart function... this prevents close "failing" w/ EINVAL when it
really was successful...

Reviewed by:	jeremy (NetBSD)
2004-07-26 21:29:56 +00:00
Hajimu UMEMOTO
8a59da300c when IN6P_AUTOFLOWLABEL is set, the flowlabel is not set on
outgoing tcp connections.

Reported by:	Orla McGann <orly@cnri.dit.ie>
Reviewed by:	Orla McGann <orly@cnri.dit.ie>
Obtained from:	KAME
2004-07-16 18:08:13 +00:00
Robert Watson
3f9d1ef905 Remove spl's from TCP protocol entry points. While not all locking
is merged here yet, this will ease the merge process by bringing the
locked and unlocked versions into sync.
2004-06-26 17:50:50 +00:00
Robert Watson
4e397bc524 In tcp_ctloutput(), don't hold the inpcb lock over a call to
ip_ctloutput(), as it may need to perform blocking memory allocations.
This also improves consistency with locking relative to other points
that call into ip_ctloutput().

Bumped into by:	Grover Lines <grover@ceribus.net>
2004-06-18 20:22:21 +00:00
Robert Watson
c0b99ffa02 The socket field so_state is used to hold a variety of socket related
flags relating to several aspects of socket functionality.  This change
breaks out several bits relating to send and receive operation into a
new per-socket buffer field, sb_state, in order to facilitate locking.
This is required because, in order to provide more granular locking of
sockets, different state fields have different locking properties.  The
following fields are moved to sb_state:

  SS_CANTRCVMORE            (so_state)
  SS_CANTSENDMORE           (so_state)
  SS_RCVATMARK              (so_state)

Rename respectively to:

  SBS_CANTRCVMORE           (so_rcv.sb_state)
  SBS_CANTSENDMORE          (so_snd.sb_state)
  SBS_RCVATMARK             (so_rcv.sb_state)

This facilitates locking by isolating fields to be located with other
identically locked fields, and permits greater granularity in socket
locking by avoiding storing fields with different locking semantics in
the same short (avoiding locking conflicts).  In the future, we may
wish to coallesce sb_state and sb_flags; for the time being I leave
them separate and there is no additional memory overhead due to the
packing/alignment of shorts in the socket buffer structure.
2004-06-14 18:16:22 +00:00
Warner Losh
f36cfd49ad Remove advertising clause from University of California Regent's
license, per letter dated July 22, 1999 and email from Peter Wemm,
Alan Cox and Robert Watson.

Approved by: core, peter, alc, rwatson
2004-04-07 20:46:16 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
52710de1cb Fix a panic possibility caused by returning without releasing locks.
It was fixed by moving problemetic checks, as well as checks that
doesn't need locking before locks are acquired.

Submitted by:		Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com>
In co-operation with:	cperciva, maxim, mlaier, sam
Tested by:		submitter (previous patch), me (current patch)
Reviewed by:		cperciva, mlaier (previous patch), sam (current patch)
Approved by:		sam
Dedicated to:		enough!
2004-04-04 20:14:55 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
56dc72c3b6 Remove unused argument. 2004-03-28 15:48:00 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
b0330ed929 Reduce 'td' argument to 'cred' (struct ucred) argument in those functions:
- in_pcbbind(),
	- in_pcbbind_setup(),
	- in_pcbconnect(),
	- in_pcbconnect_setup(),
	- in6_pcbbind(),
	- in6_pcbconnect(),
	- in6_pcbsetport().
"It should simplify/clarify things a great deal." --rwatson

Requested by:	rwatson
Reviewed by:	rwatson, ume
2004-03-27 21:05:46 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
6823b82399 Remove unused argument.
Reviewed by:	ume
2004-03-27 20:41:32 +00:00
Bruce M Simpson
88f6b0435e Shorten the name of the socket option used to enable TCP-MD5 packet
treatment.

Submitted by:	Vincent Jardin
2004-02-16 22:21:16 +00:00
Bruce M Simpson
265ed01285 Brucification.
Submitted by:	bde
2004-02-13 18:21:45 +00:00
Bruce M Simpson
1cfd4b5326 Initial import of RFC 2385 (TCP-MD5) digest support.
This is the first of two commits; bringing in the kernel support first.
This can be enabled by compiling a kernel with options TCP_SIGNATURE
and FAST_IPSEC.

For the uninitiated, this is a TCP option which provides for a means of
authenticating TCP sessions which came into being before IPSEC. It is
still relevant today, however, as it is used by many commercial router
vendors, particularly with BGP, and as such has become a requirement for
interconnect at many major Internet points of presence.

Several parts of the TCP and IP headers, including the segment payload,
are digested with MD5, including a shared secret. The PF_KEY interface
is used to manage the secrets using security associations in the SADB.

There is a limitation here in that as there is no way to map a TCP flow
per-port back to an SPI without polluting tcpcb or using the SPD; the
code to do the latter is unstable at this time. Therefore this code only
supports per-host keying granularity.

Whilst FAST_IPSEC is mutually exclusive with KAME IPSEC (and thus IPv6),
TCP_SIGNATURE applies only to IPv4. For the vast majority of prospective
users of this feature, this will not pose any problem.

This implementation is output-only; that is, the option is honoured when
responding to a host initiating a TCP session, but no effort is made
[yet] to authenticate inbound traffic. This is, however, sufficient to
interwork with Cisco equipment.

Tested with a Cisco 2501 running IOS 12.0(27), and Quagga 0.96.4 with
local patches. Patches for tcpdump to validate TCP-MD5 sessions are also
available from me upon request.

Sponsored by:	sentex.net
2004-02-11 04:26:04 +00:00