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Re: [ippm] Next version of the duplicate draft



Hi,

so this says that the source and destination IP address need to be the same for packet to be duplicates, but it's still vague about which fields in the next header ("transport" header, usually) need to be identical. I'm not convinced that this text will lead to implementations that will come up with the same measurement results for the same packet sequence. Can we be more precise?

I think it does as long as you don't look at any other fields than source,
destination and information.

Each packet has source, destination, a bunch of other headers and finally
the information that it carries.  On the receiving side, one records the
packets and for each arriving packet, one checks if one has arrived before
with the same source, destination and information (within  the time-out
interval).  If so, it is a duplicate.  If not, it isn't.

The real question, I think, is whether there can be cases where the source
intentionally sends multiple packets with the same src, dst and information
(but something different in the other headers).

Henk




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Hi,

so this says that the source and destination IP address need to be the same for packet to be duplicates, but it's still vague about which fields in the next header ("transport" header, usually) need to be identical. I'm not convinced that this text will lead to implementations that will come up with the same measurement results for the same packet sequence. Can we be more precise?

I think it does as long as you don't look at any other fields than source,
destination and information.

Each packet has source, destination, a bunch of other headers and finally
the information that it carries.  On the receiving side, one records the
packets and for each arriving packet, one checks if one has arrived before
with the same source, destination and information (within  the time-out
interval).  If so, it is a duplicate.  If not, it isn't.

The real question, I think, is whether there can be cases where the source
intentionally sends multiple packets with the same src, dst and information
(but something different in the other headers).

Henk




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