Re: [Users] Re: Pluto internal error

From: Norbert Wegener (nw_at_sbs.de)
Date: Wed Jul 31 2002 - 23:49:08 CEST


Hello Andreas,

first of all: Thanks for the explanation.

Andreas Steffen schrieb:
>
> Well, if you have set keylife=24h then it is just normal behaviour
> to keep the eroute for at least this time frame. The problem
> will always occur when a different user logs in with an IP
> for which an eroute is still in use.

But another question arises: Why can the existing eroute not be taken
down in this case?
If you have a limited pool of ipaddresses for your customers and no
client with delete notification, you will probably run in a problem like
this one.

Regards
Norbert

 The only solution is
> either to reduce the keylife sufficiently so that the probability
> of another user getting the lease of the same IP before the
> IPsec SA expires becomes small enough or as an alternative to
> implement support of delete notifications (if the VPN client
> generates them) so that the IPsec SA and the corresponding eroute
> is automatically deleted when the client disconnects.
>
> Regards
>
> Andreas

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