I would be very much interested in a real-world example instead of hypotheticals. What service provider is asking for WESP?
Dan. On Thu, January 7, 2010 6:15 pm, Bhatia, Manav (Manav) wrote: > Dan, > > [clipped] > >> Because it's unnecessary bloat that another group may not have any >> use for. ESP-null could be used, for instance, to protect >> packets in an >> EGP routing protocol. There is no need for WESP in such an >> environment. > > EGP routing protocols, by definition and design, will traverse multiple > autonomous systems, and there could very well be a policy on the edge of > one such AS that could deny entry to any traffic that it doesn't > recognize. > > Using WESP will clearly help in such cases. > > Cheers, Manav > _______________________________________________ > IPsec mailing list > IPsec@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec > _______________________________________________ IPsec mailing list IPsec@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec
