RE: IPSEC target and transport mode

[Black_David@emc.com]

> >What I've heard is a desire to use existing gateway implementations of
> >IPsec that don't support transport mode well or at all due to:

[N.B. Above quote corrected, "tunnel" --> "transport".]
 
> Why is this relevant? IPsec security gateway devices typically don't
support 
> iSCSI, iFCP or FCIP at all, and therefore won't even count towards "two 
> interoperable implementations".

Two-box or two-board or two-chip systems that combine an iSCSI, iFCP
or FCIP implementation with an IPsec security gateway and claim
protocol compliance only on the secure side of the gateway.

Thanks,
--David
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