This is an implementation specific optimization that has already been solved in 
multiple implementations.

Cheers, Manav

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tero Kivinen [mailto:kivi...@iki.fi] 
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 6.39 PM
> To: Bhatia, Manav (Manav)
> Cc: ipsec@ietf.org
> Subject: RE: [IPsec] WESP - Roadmap Ahead
> 
> Bhatia, Manav (Manav) writes:
> > And the reason why you might want to use WESP is to prioritize
> > certain protocol packets over the others, as is normally done for v4
> > control packets (e.g. OSPFv3 HELLOs and ACKs over other OSPFv3
> > packets) 
> 
> You cannot do that, as if the packets get reordered more than what is
> the replay window size of the responder, then older packets will get
> dropped. If you want to do QoS you need to use multiple IPsec SAs each
> carrying only one traffic for one QoS level.
> 
> See RFC4301 section 4.1.
> -- 
> kivi...@iki.fi
> 
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