Julian, do you completely want to remove back-to-back or "..back-to-back ICMP error messages.." will be agreeable ??
I don't mind removing back-to-back if it is creating confusion ? Let me know. Regards Mukesh > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ext > Sellers, Julian P > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ICMPv6 Rate Limiting Methods: Revised Text (2) > > > From Pekka's text: > > One good way to implement the rate-limiting function > is a token > bucket, allowing up to B back-to-back error messages to > be transmitted in a burst, but limiting the average rate of > transmission to N, where N can either be packets/seconds or a > fraction of the attached link's bandwidth. > > From an earlier message from Zachary Amsden: > > It seems to me that "back to back" is ill-defined. > It is highly > unlikely that the ICMP error packets will be > transmitted with no other > transmissions in between, which "back to back" seems > to imply. The > burst allowance should probably be defined as > "allowing a burst of N > packets over Ts seconds", or something along these lines. > > Zachary is right--"back-to-back" adds nothing but confusion. > Please remove "back-to-back." > > Julian > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE > PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended > recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the > sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
