[Openswan dev] klips and ethernet headers ?

[Harald Jenny]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:39:29PM +1000, David McCullough wrote:
> 
> Hi all,

Hi David

> 
> Here's a question that hopefully someone knows the answer to ;-)
> 
> Currently openswan is not providing the "correct" MAC addresses if you tcpdump
> the ipsecX interfaces.  Not suprising since klips is not an ethernet
> driver ;-)  You see the ipsecX MAC address for both source and dest.
> This is filled out before klips sees the skb,  only header_ops may be able
> to clean it up.
> 
> So,  while it may be possible to fix this,  my first question is why does
> klips even try to do ethernet frame stuff ?  IPsec is not an ethernet level
> protocol.  All the saving/copying of the hard header and the complexity of
> the header_ops and mac header maintenance seems like something klips could
> do without.
> 
> Can anyone offer a reason this should be there ?  If not I may look at
> purging it all :-)

Hmmmm why not creating a branch for this, remove the code and test it? If the
reasons are historical (pre 2.4) then the problem has already gone away, if
not the testing may show them...

> 
> Cheers,
> Davidm

Kind regards
Harald

P.S: I know not a satisfying answer ;-)

> 
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