Jimmy,

As far as I know that's the answer. Generally speaking IPsec tunnels were
not logical tunnel interfaces for routing purposes until the VTIs has been
introduced.

Regards,
-- 
Piotr Kaluzny
CCIE #25665 (Security), CCSP, CCNP
Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc.
URL: http://www.IPexpert.com



On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Jimmy Larsson <[email protected]> wrote:

> So, the problem with multicast over ipsec is not actually a limitation of
> ipsec of itself, but rather a limitation when using crypto maps because
> crypto-maps are p2mp-concept?
>
> /J
>
> 2010/3/17 Piotr Kaluzny <[email protected]>
>
> Jimmy,
>>
>> You are right, this is plain IPSec traffic.
>>
>> Regarding your second question - standard crypto maps are
>> point-to-multipoint concept, that's why they don't know which peer to send
>> the multicast traffic to. SVTI is a point-to-point connection, multicasts
>> will be blindly sent through the tunnel.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Piotr Kaluzny
>> CCIE #25665 (Security), CCSP, CCNP
>> Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc.
>> URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Jimmy Larsson <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I´ve read the url but still doesn´t really get it. The configuration
>>> looks exactly like mine except for the addition of "tunnel mode ipsec ipv4".
>>>
>>>
>>> As far as I can figure the "tunnel mode ipsec ipv4" changes the tunnel
>>> from running gre into using plain ipsec. Right? I dont have access to my lab
>>> at the moment so I cant verify, but without "tunnel mode ipsec ipv4" the
>>> traffic is GRE with a ipsec-content. When adding "tunnel mode ipsec ipv4" I
>>> change the tunnel into running native ipsec, which should mean that a
>>> sniffer should display ESP transit-traffic.
>>>
>>> Or am I wrong?
>>>
>>> If I am right, what happened to the limitation of ipsec when it comes to
>>> multicast-traffic?
>>>
>>>
>>> Br Jimmy
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> -------
>>> Jimmy Larsson
>>> Ryavagen 173
>>> s-26030 Vallakra
>>> Sweden
>>> http://blogg.kvistofta.nu
>>> -------
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Piotr Kaluzny
>> CCIE #25665 (Security), CCSP, CCNP
>> Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc.
>> URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
> -------
> Jimmy Larsson
> Ryavagen 173
> s-26030 Vallakra
> Sweden
> http://blogg.kvistofta.nu
> -------
>



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Piotr Kaluzny
CCIE #25665 (Security), CCSP, CCNP
Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc.
URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
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