IPsec Architectures and Implementation Methods
The main reason that IPsec is so powerful is that it provides security to IP, which is the basis for all other TCP/IP protocols. In protecting IP, you are protecting pretty much everything else in TCP/IP as well. An important issue, then, is how exactly do you get IPsec into IP? There are several implementation methods for deploying IPsec. These represent different ways that IPsec may modify the overall layer architecture of TCP/IP.
Three different implementation architectures are defined for IPsec in RFC 2401. The one you use depends on various factors including the version of IP used (IPv4 or IPv6), the requirements of the application, and other factors. These, in turn, rest on a primary implementation ...
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