Re: [ippm] [**EXTERNAL**] Re: AD review of draft-ietf-ippm-stamp

[Rakesh Gandhi <[e-mail]>]

Hi Mirja,
Thanks for your comments, yes, such appropriate caveat can be added for the
user port range in the TWAMP Yang mode.

Thanks,
Rakesh


On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 11:25 AM Mirja Kuehlewind <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> Hi Rakesh,
>
> Just quickly a comment on this bit:
>
> > On 19. Aug 2019, at 17:12, Rakesh Gandhi <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > TWAMP Yang model [draft-ietf-ippm-twamp-yang-13] can also support the
> range to allow user ports. An example caveat is specified in
> [draft-ietf-tram-turnbis-29]
> > as "unless the TURN server application knows, through some means not
> >    specified here, that other applications running on the same host as
> the TURN server application will not be impacted by allocating ports
> outside this range. "
> >
> I don’t think it is the same thing for turn and stamp/twamp.
>
> In turn you aim at actually opening a connection to a remote endpoint and
> need to make sure that that endpoint is talking the same protocol as you
> do. That remote endpoint might actually implement different services on
> different ports.
>
> TWAMP is used for testing, therefore it could make sense to set up a
> testing server that listens on exactly the same port as your application
> would usually do. Yes, when using twamp on such ports, you have to make
> sure that your twamp server does not implement another protocol on that
> port but often these server are decided for testing only and preconfigured
> in a respective way.
>
> Mirja
>
>
>