Some devices always use the oldest IKE_SA to send DPDs and will delete
all IKE_SAs when there is no response. If uniqueness is not enforced
rekeyed IKE_SAs might not get deleted until they expire so we should
respond to DPDs.
References #2090.
When multihomed, a setup might prefer to dynamically stay on the cheapest
available path by using MOBIKE migrations. If the cheapest path goes away and
comes back, we currently stay on the more expensive path to reduce noise and
prevent potential migration issues. This is usually just fine for links not
generating real cost.
If we have more expensive links in the setup, it can be desirable to always
migrate to the cheapest link available. By setting charon.prefer_best_path,
charon tries to migrate to the path using the highest priority link, allowing
an external application to update routes to indirectly control MOBIKE behavior.
This option has no effect if MOBIKE is unavailable.
Disabling MOBIKE and statically configuring a local address should be
enough indication that the user doesn't want to roam to a different
address. There might not be any routes that indicate we can use the
current address but it might still work (e.g. if the address is on an
interface that is not referenced in any routes and the address itself
is neither). This way we avoid switching to another address for routes
that might be available on the system.
We currently don't make much use of COND_STALE anyway when MOBIKE is not
enabled, e.g. to avoid sending DPDs if the connection is seemingly down.
With MOBIKE enabled we don't exactly check that state but we do don't
send DPDs if there is no route/source address available.
This way updates to the mediation config are respected and the order in
which configs are configured/loaded does not matter.
The SQL plugin currently maintains the strong relationship between
mediated and mediation connection (we could theoretically change that to a
string too).
The original name is returned in the new "name" attribute.
This fixes an issue with bindings that map VICI messages to
dictionaries. For instance, in roadwarrior scenarios where every
CHILD_SA has the same name only the information of the last CHILD_SA
would end up in the dictionary for that name.
PINs are stored in a "hidden" credential set, so that its shared
secrets are not exposed via VICI. Since they are not explicitly loaded as
shared secrets via VICI a client might consider them as removed secrets and
remove them.
After an interface disappeared we can't remove the policies correctly as
the name doesn't resolve to the previous index anymore.
And making the policies so specific might not provide that much benefit.
To handle the interfaces on the policies correctly would require some
changes to the child-cfg, kernel-interface etc. so they'd take interface
indices directly so we could target the policies correctly even if an
interface disappeared (or reappeared and got a new index).
These options disable validation as such, e.g. even from cached CRLs, not
only the fetching. Also made the plugin's validate() implementation a
no-op if both options are disabled.
The SA ID (src, dst, proto, spi) is unique on ingress.
As such, explicit inbound marking is not needed to match an SA.
On the other hand, requiring inbound SAs to use marks forces the
installation of a mechanism for marking traffic (e.g. iptables) based
on some criteria.
Defining the criteria becomes complicated, for example when required to
support multiple SAs from the same src, especially when traffic is UDP
encapsulated.
This commit removes the assignment of the child_sa mark_in to the inbound SA.
Policies can be arbitrated by existing means - e.g, via netfilter policy
matching or using VTI interfaces - without the need to classify the flows prior
to state matching.
Since the reqid allocator regards the mark value, there is no risk of matching
the wrong policy.
And as explicit marking was required for route-based VPN to work before this
change, it should not cause regressions in existing setups.
Closesstrongswan/strongswan#59.
For table dumps the kernel accepts RTA_PREFSRC to filter the routes, which is
what we do when doing userspace route calculations. For kernel-based route
lookups, however, the RTA_PREFSRC attribute is ignored and we must specify
RTA_SRC for policy based route lookups.
For gateways with many connections, installing routes is often disabled,
as we can use a static route configuration to achieve proper routing with
a single rule. If this is the case, there is no need to dump all routes and
do userspace route lookups, as there is no need to exclude routes we installed
ourself.
Doing kernel-based route lookups is not only faster with may routes, but also
can use the full power of Linux policy based routing; something we can hardly
rebuild in userspace when calculating routes.
When using vici over RPyC and its (awesome) splitbrain, encoding and decoding
strings fails in vici, most likely because of the Monkey-Patch magic splitbrain
uses.
When specifying the implicit UTF-8 as encoding scheme explicitly, Python uses
the correct method to encode/decode the string, making vici useable in
splitbrain contexts.
Tobias Brunner