Ben Campbell has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-bfd-seamless-ip-04: Discuss

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DISCUSS:
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Section 4, 2nd paragraph: "  If the port is not 7784, then the packet
MUST be looked up to locate
   a corresponding SBFDInitiator session or classical BFD session based
   on the value from the "your discriminator" field in the table
   describing BFD discriminators.  "

Do I understand correctly that whether or not the destination port is
7784 tells you if this is an "initial" packet vs a "reflected" packet? If
the destination port is not 7784, how do you know it’s not some competely
different protocol? Do you assume the receiver has no other UDP based
services?


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COMMENT:
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- 2: This doesn't seem to allow an administrator to configure different
listening ports by administrative action. Is that the intent? Also, why
does it matter if the source port is 7784?

- 6.1, first bullet: Does this imply that the initiator must listen for
reflected packets at its source port? Was that explicitly mentioned
somewhere that I missed?

Editorial:

-5.1.1, first paragraph: I had trouble parsing the last sentence in the
paragraph.


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