Re: draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-v3-02.txt: Rate Limiting Methods

[Fred Templin <ftemplin@iprg.nokia.com>]

Pekka,

Pekka Savola wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Fred Templin wrote:
>  
> > Generally speaking, it seems appropriate to exclude implementation
> > alternatives only if they are known to cause operational issues. 
> >    
> [...]
>
> Traceroute not working (without unnecessary delays) is a serious
> operational issue, IMHO.
I'm not quite as concerned about traceroute as you seem to be, but
I do agree that other mechanisms that rely on ICMPv6 might suffer
from a poor choice of rate limiting schemes. (Well, OK; traceroute
is a useful tool too.)

I'll give some consideration to the token-bucket thing; my main
concern is that min/max values for the rate-limiting parameters
'B' and 'N' are not currently specified. If reasonable values can
be determined, perhaps I will revise my opinion about exclusion
of the other schemes.

Fred
ftemplin@iprg.nokia.com  

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