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IPsec thing with REAP
This is what I just mentioned, would be useful to include this in more
general IPsec-shim6 discussions.
Additional text for the security considerations:
To protect against spoofed keepalive packets, a host implementing both
shim6 and IPsec MAY ignore incoming REAP keepalives if it has good
reason to assume that the other side will be sending IPsec-protected
return traffic. I.e., if a host is sending TCP data, it can reasonably
expect to receive TCP ACKs in return. If no IPsec-protected ACKs come
back but unprotected keepalives do, this could be the result from an
attacker trying to hide broken connectivity.