[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > and the user may refuse to pay because it idid not ask for the flow label that the >malicious entity overwrote
Indeed, and then the lawyers get involved. This is nothing new. Brian > gérard > > Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/01/2002 15:09:10 > > > > To: Subrata Goswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED](bcc: Gerard > GASTAUD/FR/ALCATEL) > > > > Subject Re: Flow Label > : > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subrata Goswami wrote: > > > > The main point is, if I am a provider and I get a packet, how can > > I be sure that some malicious entity in the middle has not modified > > the flow label so that it can avail of better QoS ? > > You can't, any more than you can be sure the DSCP hasn't changed, or that > somebody isn't playing games with port numbers to fool your classifier. > > The ISP's defence against this is that more QoS will result in a higher bill. > So the ISP actually doesn't care; they get paid accordingly. > > Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
