[Openswan Users] Keylife and ikelifetime

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Tue Dec 23 11:00:07 EST 2008


On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, openswan at thefeds.net wrote:

> Could you tell me if the following is expected behaviour or a bug?
> 
> Whether I set keylife and ikelifetime or leave them to the default values 
> I am seeing that for both phase 1 and phase 2 SAs the initiator will set 
> EVENT_SA_REPLACE with the correct value, however the responder appears to 
> choose a random value.

keylife and ikelifetime are not negotiated. They are used locally. Each end
uses their own specified values, plus some fuzz.

Paul


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