In our work we have not encountered any situations where the Vendor 
Identification was relevant.

        paul

> On Mar 11, 2015, at 2:54 PM, Russ Housley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> About two years ago, I was at a workshop where someone claimed that the 
> Vendor Identifiers that are exchanged in IKE are very useful for dealing with 
> bugs.  The claim was that following the report of a bug, others could adjust 
> their behaviors to avoid the circumstances that enable the bug.  In the worst 
> case, they could refuse to talk to the badly broken version, but accept 
> connections to later versions where the bug has been repaired.
> 
> Does anyone have operation experience doing this kind of thing?  I want to 
> know if is real experience or speculation about what could be done.

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