Hal Murray via devel writes: >> BTW, the number eight is not arbitrary: that is exactly the number of packets >> a burst poll would use. > > The normal case is that the client gets back a response before it sends the > next request in the burst, so it only needs 1 cookie to start with.
While I don't know what the rationale was for the RFC, it still makes sense to provide a client with enough cookies so it can fire off the initial burst w/o re-keying even if all responses get lost. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for Waldorf Q V3.00R3 and Q+ V3.54R2: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
