Hi Graham,

> I've looked at the "IPsecStandards" page on the wiki and ticked off
> many of the relevant wanted RFCs.

Keep in mind that this is not a list we claim to support, but a list of
standards we work with. We support most of them in a certain way, but
some not at all yet (e.g. 4806, 5282, 5448 and the multicast standards
are not supported).

> rfc2709: Security Model with Tunnel-mode IPsec for NAT Domains

If I understand correctly, this one talks about using a router doing NAT
as an IKE/IPsec endpoint. I can't say anything about compatibility, as
it includes other components (i.e. Netfilter on Linux). But probably it
is doable to implement a compatible device using strongSwan and the
required Netfilter rules.

> rfc3715: IPsec-Network Address Translation (NAT) Compatibility

This one talks about problems that NAT introduces to IPsec with IKEv1 in
mind. IKEv2 solves most of the problems mentioned. Others are worked
around by strongSwan (i.e. we do not setup transport mode SAs over NAT
to avoid issues with it).

> These look like ancient, IPsecv2/IKEv1 informational/optional texts to me.

The latter, probably yes.

> Can we state that strongSwan complies with them ?

I don't think 3715 has any requirements of value these days (it mainly
enumerates the problems), but I think we have most of them worked around
by the IKEv2 protocol or our implementation.

> Or, should we assert that these are obsolete and not relevant ?

Is 2709 relevant for your scenario at all?


Sorry for not having a yes/no answer to these standards, but I have
actually never heard of them and they do not look that relevant to me.

Regards
Martin

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