RE: AH for IPSec esp tunnel mode?

You need to either use ESP or AH. Simply, AH provides you packet level authentication while ESP can provide you the same, plus encryption.

Raghu

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias Teege [mailto:matthias@mteege.de] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 5:14 PM
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: AH for IPSec esp tunnel mode?

I have a IPSec tunnel between to gateways in esp/tunnel mode. Is it necessary to make use of ah in a setup like that?

Many thanks
Matthias

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