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IPSec Authentication Header (AH)
(Page 2 of 4)
Authentication Header Datagram Placement and Linking
The calculation of the authentication
header is similar for both IPv4 and IPv6. One difference is in the exact
mechanism used for placing the header into the datagram and for linking
the headers together. I'll describe IPv6 first since it is simpler,
as AH was really designed to fit into IPv6s mechanism for this.
IPv6 Authentication Header Placement and Linking
The AH is inserted into the IP datagram
as an extension header, following the normal
IPv6 rules for extension header linking.
It is linked by the previous header (extension or main) putting into
its Next Header field the assigned value for the AH header (51).
The AH header then links to the next extension header or the transport
layer header using its Next Header field.
In transport mode, the AH is placed
into the main IP header and appears before any Destination Options
header containing options intended for the final destination, and before
an ESP header if present, but after any other extension headers.
In tunnel mode, it appears as an extension header of the new IP datagram
that encapsulates the original one being tunneled. This is shown graphically
in Figure 121.
Figure 121: IPv6 Datagram Format With IPSec Authentication Header (AH) At top is an example IPv6 datagram with two extension headers linked using the standard IPv6 mechanism (see Figure 106.) When AH is applied in transport mode, it is simply added as a new extension header (shown in pink) that goes between the Routing extension header and the Destination Options header. In tunnel mode, the entire original datagram is encapsulated into a new IPv6 datagram that contains the Authentication Header. In both cases the Next Header fields are used to link each header one to the next. Note the use of Next Header value 41 in tunnel mode, which is the value for the encapsulated IPv6 datagram.
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