[strongSwan] Query on INITIAL_CONTACT

Tobias Brunner tobias at strongswan.org
Wed Jul 14 09:48:40 CEST 2021


Hi Mohit,

> This text seems to indicate that StrongSwan sends out INITIAL_CONTACT 
> when it is acting as an initiator unless the above option is set to 'never'.
> 
> My question is if this has been the behaviour of StrongSwan's 
> implementation since day-1? If a device is using an older version of 
> StrongSwan's implementation, will the above documented behaviour hold true?

Older versions (before 5.6.1) also didn't send the notify when the value 
was set to "no".

Regards,
Tobias



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