Re: [mpls] Spencer Dawkins' No Objection on draft-ietf-mpls-self-ping-05: (with COMMENT)

Spencer Dawkins at IETF <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> Fri, 16 October 2015 16:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [mpls] Spencer Dawkins' No Objection on draft-ietf-mpls-self-ping-05: (with COMMENT)
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Hi, Ron,

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Ronald Bonica <rbonica@juniper.net> wrote:

> Hi Spence,
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> I guess you deserve a better answer ;-)
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> In LSP Self-ping, the ingress LSR:
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> -          Formats a packet addressed to itself
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> -          Sends the packet through the LSP under test
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> -          Waits for the packet to return to it
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> The ingress LSR is both the producer and consumer of the packet.
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> In an earlier version of the draft, the ingress LSR selected a UDP port
> from the dynamic range (49152- 65535). Implementations could pick a single
> port and use it all the time or pick a port for each LSP Self-ping session.
> However, if an implementation did this, it would be difficult to identify
> and filter LSP Self-ping packets at the domain edge. So, the WG decided to
> put all LSP Self-ping traffic on UDP port 8503, so it could be easily
> identified and filtered.
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>                                                  Ron
>

I was reading your first answer that way, but I didn't have the history
that the WG had considered this in detail, and appreciate you providing
that pointer.

Thanks,

Spencer