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Re: issues from the bakeoff
Paul Koning writes:
> >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Harkins <dharkins@network-alchemy.com> writes:
> Dan> - Is it OK to send 3 copies of every single message (which one
> Dan> implementation was doing)? Yes.
> Similarly, the IKE spec doesn't specifically prohibit sending 3 copies
> of the message because, I submit, no one thought that anyone would be
> silly enough to do this, so it wasn't necessary to make a specific
> rule "don't do this silly thing". But I would certainly call this
> implementation broken.
It might also be that the other end used 100 ms retranmission timers,
that was doubled every time, so the first retry was sent 100 ms after
first packet, second retry 200 ms after the second packet, and third
one 400 ms after the second packet etc.
If it took about a second from the other end to process the packet
what he sees is that he is receiving three copies of every packet.
Anyways sending each packet 3 times should matter, because every
implementation MUST be able to interoperate with such system.
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