RE: key change for TCP-MD5

["Bora Akyol" <bora () broadcom com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Greene (bgreene) [mailto:bgreene () cisco com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 11:50 AM
> To: Bora Akyol; Ross Callon; nanog () merit edu
> Subject: RE: key change for TCP-MD5
>
>  
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> > If DOS is such a large concern, IPSEC to an extent can be used to 
> > mitigate against it. And IKEv1/v2 with IPSEC is not the horribly 
> > inefficient mechanism it is made out to be. In practice, it 
> is quite 
> > easy to use.
>
> IPSEC does nothing to protect a network device from a DOS 
> attack. You know that.

Barry

The validity of your statement depends tremendously on how IPSEC is
implemented.

Bora