Re: what is net-pf-17?

Riley Williams (rhw@BigFoot.Com)
Sat, 7 Aug 1999 10:03:03 +0100 (GMT)


Hi Richard.

>>> Additionally, I have seen and am using PF_KEY=15 (RFC2367).
>>> Currently, our PF_KEYv2 is part of the 'ipsec' module, but
>>> should be separated at some point into 'key' since it is a
>>> generic keying interface.

>> I deliberately omitted that one as it appears to have at least
>> three different names in the kernel sources, and I didn't plan
>> on guessing which was the correct one.

> Good, so at least you have seen them.

Yep.

> The ones I have seen are AF_KEY, pseudo_AF_KEY, presumably
> because according to RFC2367, it should not be assumed that
> AF_KEY even exists.

The ones I've seen are AF_KEY, pseudo_AF_KEY and PseudoKEY which
presumably all refer to the same thing, but only one can be correct...

Best wishes from Riley.

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