Re: [dccp] [udp-encap rev2] discussion/comments

2010-10-08 Thread Andrew Lentvorski
On 10/5/10 12:32 PM, Phelan, Tom wrote: [TomP] I am very against doing the checksum calculation twice, once for UDP and then again for DCCP. In my opinion, implementations should know which encapsulation is being used. I hope I'm missing something, but ... I'm *very* against usage-context se

Re: [dccp] [udp-encap rev2] discussion/comments

2010-10-08 Thread Lars Eggert
Hi, On 2010-10-8, at 11:19, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Besides, my (admittedly old) copy of Stevens indicates that UDP > checksums are optional. they are optional for IPv4 but (currently) mandatory for IPv6. (Just a data point.) Lars smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [dccp] [udp-encap rev2] discussion/comments

2010-10-08 Thread L.Wood
Andrew, a few points: - turning off the UDP checksum (which also acts as a necessary demultiplexing at-the-right-endpoint check) has repeatedly proven to be a very bad idea. Subtle NFS corruption etc. See the end-to-end papers. Saying 'well, the higher layers will obviously check their work in

Re: [dccp] [udp-encap rev2] discussion/comments

2010-10-08 Thread Gorry Fairhurst
See comments in line... On 08/10/2010 09:54, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: Andrew, a few points: - turning off the UDP checksum (which also acts as a necessary demultiplexing > at-the-right-endpoint check) has repeatedly proven to be a very bad idea. > Subtle NFS corruption etc. See the end-to-

Re: [dccp] [udp-encap rev2] discussion/comments

2010-10-08 Thread Phelan, Tom
Hi Andrew, See inline... Tom P. > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Lentvorski [mailto:bs...@allcaps.org] > Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 4:19 AM > To: Phelan, Tom > Cc: Gerrit Renker; dccp@ietf.org > Subject: Re: [dccp] [udp-encap rev2] discussion/comments > > On 10/5/10 12:32 PM, Phe

Re: [dccp] [udp-encap rev2] discussion/comments

2010-10-08 Thread Phelan, Tom
Hi Lloyd, I'm pretty much in line with what you say here. See inline for details... Tom P. > -Original Message- > From: l.w...@surrey.ac.uk [mailto:l.w...@surrey.ac.uk] > Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 4:55 AM > To: bs...@allcaps.org > Cc: l.w...@surrey.ac.uk; Phelan, Tom; ger...@erg.ab

Re: [dccp] [udp-encap rev2] discussion/comments

2010-10-08 Thread Phelan, Tom
Hi Gorry, I think you've hit the points well below. Adding and explicit "UDP checksum of zero is invalid" to the next revision should help things. Tom P. > -Original Message- > From: dccp-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:dccp-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of > Gorry Fairhurst > Sent: Friday, Octo

Re: [dccp] [udp-encap rev2] discussion/comments

2010-10-08 Thread Phelan, Tom
Hi Pasi, See inline... Tom P. > -Original Message- > From: Pasi Sarolahti [mailto:pasi.sarola...@iki.fi] > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 5:55 AM > To: Phelan, Tom > Cc: Gerrit Renker; dccp@ietf.org > Subject: Re: [dccp] [udp-encap rev2] discussion/comments > > Hi, > > I'm picking a

Re: [dccp] [udp-encap rev2] discussion/comments

2010-10-08 Thread Andrew Lentvorski
On 10/8/10 1:54 AM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: Andrew, a few points: - turning off the UDP checksum (which also acts as a necessary demultiplexing at-the-right-endpoint check) has repeatedly proven to be a very bad idea. Subtle NFS corruption etc. See the end-to-end papers. Saying 'well, the

Re: [dccp] [udp-encap rev2] discussion/comments

2010-10-08 Thread Andrew Lentvorski
On 10/8/10 7:25 AM, Phelan, Tom wrote: [TomP] There have been several good comments on this already, but one thing I'd like to add is, how can this work? The problem is that the DCCP checksum includes the IP addresses, which have potentially been changed along the way. Ah, the DCCP checksum i