On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Templin, Fred L wrote:
Sorry, I was looking at the wrong section. I see now that Section 8 is
talking about a method for a CE to send an ordinary data packet that loops
back via the BR. That method is fine, but it is no more immune to someone
abusing the mechanism than would be sending a ping (or some other NUD
message). By using a ping, the BR can impose rate-limiting on its ping
responses whereas with a looped-back data packet the BR really can't do
rate limiting.
You don't ping the BR, you ping yourself via the BR. The BR only forwards the
packet.
My bad, I didn't read your text properly. Why would the BR want to
rate-limit data plane traffic?
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