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Re: [ntpwg] Antw: Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-ntp-checksum-trailer-05.txt

Harlan Stenn <stenn@ntp.org> Mon, 07 March 2016 10:55 UTC

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Comments: In-reply-to Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net> message dated "Mon, 07 Mar 2016 02:19:52 -0800."
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Hal Murray writes:
> 
> stenn@ntp.org said:
> > New servers would use the new MAC, perhaps in conjunction with a new
> > extension field that says "I am the last extension field" so if something
> > comes after it we'd know it was an old-style MAC. 
> 
> Why is that case interesting?  Why would a new server want an old-style MAC?

It wouldn't.  But a new instance can talk with an old instance.

H
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