This is a great design and the statelessness also reduces amplification attack.
-d > On May 31, 2024, at 11:17 AM, Rolf Winter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Int-Area WG, > > the last time we presented Reverse Traceroute a comment was made that ICMP as > being used today usually does not keep state around. We still believe that it > does no real harm in this case but, as an alternative that does not need > state, we have written up a stateless alternative for Reverse Traceroute. > > Where's the catch? Well, stateless reverse traceroute can always enumerate > the routers on the reverse path, but it can potentially fail to provide an > RTT measurement for each hop. But read for yourself: > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-heiwin-intarea-reverse-traceroute-stateless-00 > > Happy to take comments. > > Best, > > Rolf > _______________________________________________ > Int-area mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
