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Re: UDP/123 policers & status


From: Saku Ytti <saku () ytti fi>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:18:35 +0300

On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 01:58, Ragnar Sundblad <ragge () kth se> wrote:

A protocol with varying packet size, as the NTS protected NTP is,
can easily have the bad property of having responses larger than the
requests if not taken care. Don’t you see that?

Why? Why not pad requests to guarantee attenuation vector until
authenticity of packets can be verified?

MinimaLT does this. I think all UDP based and initial TCP should do
it, doing it for existing protocols may not be possible, but why not
for new?

I proposed similar method for proxy-trace (bidir tracerouting) -
https://github.com/ytti/proxy-trace/blob/master/draft-ytti-intarea-proxy-trace.xml#L169

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