Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> Using AH/ESP to protect ND works fine once the SA's exist.
> 
> However, there's a chicken & egg problem if you want to use IKE, and
> manually configuring N*(N-1) SA's across N machines on the link is not
> deployable.


Actually, it's worse. ND uses e.g. the solicited node multicast
address and the unicast address -- even if each node had a single
address. Since the RFC 2401 SAs are indexed through <dest,SPI,proto>,
you'll need _multiple_ SAs between two machines, even in one
direction. So, your formula should be more like 2*M*N*(N-1) where
M is the number of addresses per node.

Jari

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