6 Jun
2015
6 Jun
'15
12:14 p.m.
Overreaction, yes, if you consider 149 bytes each minute. But what if
ALL the MikroTic guys were doing exactly the same thing: broadcasting
every minute through every ampr gateway's tunnel? It would, methinks,
turn my tunnel into a total dog's breakfast, making it impossible for me
to monitor the 'real' activity on my system.
Every packet from all the folks I share an axip/udp link with traverses
my tun0, which I monitor. Now add the async discovery broadcasts from
how many MikroTic guys, before the real traffic can no longer be seen
through the 'I'm alive are you alive' clutter?
This is my real concern.
I'm sorry if the terms I use are not in the best networking argot.
73 - jerome - ve7ass
On 2015-06-06 07:21, Tom Hayward wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages)
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:54 PM, Marius Petrescu <marius(a)yo2loj.ro> wrote:
But really, isn't this a kind of overreaction
to one 149 bytes long packet
every minute?
Agreed. The sky is not falling.
Running neighbor discovery protocol is actually a benefit. It tells
you that you have connectivity to this other AMPR gateway. If those
neighbor discovery packets ever stop, you know something has gone
wrong and your tunnel to that gateway is broken. If all gateways ran
this protocol, you could start collecting some health statistics for
the entire network.
Tom KD7LXL
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