Erik Kline <e...@google.com> wrote:
> In the latter case especially, what becomes clear is that the UE needs
> to be able to receive an unsolicited packet. ICMP is a canonical
> example of receiving and processing an unsolicited packet. But it
> could also be something like a UDP socket listening on a well known
> port that receives a 1-byte datagram, which causes the UE to enqueue
> (for rate-limiting purposes) a captive API query.
On POSIX systems, it's clearly a lot easier to open a UDP socket from an
unpriviledged application than to open an ICMP socket.
Is this a consideration for you?
> [3] NetworkMonitor already rate limits requests from applications
> to revalidate the network, and these would likely be no different (or
> pretty much the same).
Or would NetworkMonitor do this anyway, and it has all the priviledges it
needs anyway?
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