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) _______________________________________________ On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:54 PM, Marius Petrescu marius@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.
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