This is a great design and the statelessness also reduces amplification attack.
-d > On May 31, 2024, at 11:17 AM, Rolf Winter <rolf.win...@hs-augsburg.de> wrote: > > Dear Int-Area WG, > > the last time we presented Reverse Traceroute a comment was made that ICMP as > being used today usually does not keep state around. We still believe that it > does no real harm in this case but, as an alternative that does not need > state, we have written up a stateless alternative for Reverse Traceroute. > > Where's the catch? Well, stateless reverse traceroute can always enumerate > the routers on the reverse path, but it can potentially fail to provide an > RTT measurement for each hop. But read for yourself: > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-heiwin-intarea-reverse-traceroute-stateless-00 > > Happy to take comments. > > Best, > > Rolf > _______________________________________________ > Int-area mailing list -- int-area@ietf.org > To unsubscribe send an email to int-area-le...@ietf.org _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list -- int-area@ietf.org To unsubscribe send an email to int-area-le...@ietf.org
