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UDP Checksum Trailer in OWAMP and TWAMP
draft-mizrahi-owamp-twamp-checksum-trailer-01

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Author Tal Mizrahi
Last updated 2014-01-14 (Latest revision 2013-10-08)
Replaced by draft-mizrahi-ippm-checksum-trailer
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Abstract

The One-Way Active Measurement Protocol (OWAMP) and the Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP) are used for performance monitoring in IP networks. Delay measurement is performed in these protocols by using timestamped test packets. Some implementations use hardware-based timestamping engines that integrate the accurate transmission timestamp into every outgoing OWAMP/TWAMP test packet during transmission. Since these packets are transported over UDP, the UDP checksum field is then updated to reflect this modification. This document proposes to use the last 2 octets of every test packet as a Checksum Trailer, allowing timestamping engines to reflect the checksum modification in the last 2 octets rather than in the UDP checksum field. The behavior defined in this document is completely interoperable with existing OWAMP/TWAMP implementations.

Authors

Tal Mizrahi

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