RIP is a router/router protocol and uses UDP...
SNMP is used to manage routers and uses UDP...
Yes, I wish UDP had never been invented so that people would write
transports that actually did what they intended, but folks use UDP
instead and build the transport in the application.
On Jul 31, 2009, at 12:27 AM, Lars Eggert wrote:
Hi,
On 2009-7-30, at 22:22, Noel Chiappa wrote:
From: Lars Eggert <lars.egg...@nokia.com>
This is in direct conflict with what RFC2460 says, and I'd
personally
would find it problematic to approve publication of an Experimental
protocol that did this, unless there was an IETF consensus on a
standards-track document that would update RFC2460 accordingly.
Such a
document would IMO need to show extremely strong arguments for why
this
change is needed.
This is for an inter-router packet carriage use, not end-end. Why
the dickens
should there be a mandatory checksum on the data in the packet for
sending a
packet from one router to another?
Since we're up-levelling the discussion, I don't understand why one
would use UDP as a router-router protocol in the first place,
especially for IPv6, where the chance that the packet will hit a NAT
are probably exactly zero.
What I'm saying is that *if* UDP us used, it needs to be used
according to the RFCs that capture the IETF consensus on their use,
or the IETF consensus must be revised.
Lars
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