[c-nsp] Troubling IPSec issues with a 6500

Aaron Daubman daubman at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 11:21:34 EDT 2007


Gert,

On 9/12/07, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:
...
>
> Are you sure IPSEC on the 6500 is supported?
>
> From your description, this sounds as if
>
>  - CPU switched traffic (locally generated) will use IPSEC
>  - hardware-switched traffic will only do GRE (because the hardware knows
>    how to do that).
>
> As far as I understand the architecture, a basic 6500 won't do IPSEC...


Your answer seems (unfortunately) logically sound...  how could I
verify if this is definitely the issue?

Thanks again,
     ~Aaron


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