On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:00:34PM +0200, Darren Reed wrote:
<mucho snippage deleted!>
> The question I've got to ask is, why is the IKE daemon receiving packets for
> so many different IP addresses?

Because it has to.

> Is it a required part of some protocol spec?

Yep.

> Or is it an application design thing?

Yep.

> Or...?

Or it's either that or open a socket per address like in.iked(1M) is forced
to do today.  :-P

When you throw IPv6 into the equation, it's a MUST (to use IETF-speak).

Dan
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