[Openswan Users] Openswan and out or order packets

Ales Klok orrie at seznam.cz
Thu Nov 2 18:40:58 EST 2006


> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Diego Woitasen wrote:
>
>> I have some problems with losing packets in a private link with QoS.
>> The question is, KLIPS discards packets that arrive out of order?
>
> I don't know why klips would do that. There is no "order" in ESP packets.
> It's not a "reliable" connection like TCP. It's more like UDP.

I think he mean antireplay protection. QoS can reorder ESP packets and 
sequence number may not fit in sliding window Usually 32 or 64 packets wide 
for CISCO.
Orrie 



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