Rajiv, > When this draft-shen-udp-traceroute-ext was presented last week during > the int-area meeting, there seems to be a consensus about the problem > that the draft was solving, however, there was a minor concern about the > solution. > > Specifically, the concern was that using last 4 bits in the > UDP src port# will result in varying the src port#, hence, > traceroute probe may not really test the actual path (if > multiple paths exist) that the application traffic may take.
The solution used for Paris traceroute (changing the checksum instead of changing the last 4 bits of the src port) could be applicable as well. See http://www.paris-traceroute.net/ and http://www.imconf.net/imc-2006/papers/p15-augustin.pdf Olivier -- http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be , UCLouvain, Belgium _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
