why is SA lifetime kilobyte limit disabled in racoon?

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

Hi -
racoon does not allow to specify a lifetime type of kilobytes.
A config file containing such a rule is rejected; the message is
"byte lifetime support is deprecated".

I haven't found any reference why this is the case, and no
other IKE implementation which doesn't allow asuch a volume
limit.
Someone asked about that on the KAME mailing list but didn't
get an answer.

Does anyone here remember of a reason why racoon does
do this?
(Not that I need it, but it causes confusion.)

best regards
Matthias



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