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wip IT RETURNED A PACKET
[hippotat.git]
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PROTOCOL
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PROTOCOL
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PROTOCOL
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-1,41
+1,32
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Server maintains a queue of outbound packets for each user
Server maintains a queue of outbound packets for each user
-Packets which are older than
MAX_QUEUE_TIME
are discarded
+Packets which are older than
the applicable max_queue_time
are discarded
-Each incoming request to the server takes up to
MAX_BATCH_DOWN
bytes
+Each incoming request to the server takes up to
max_batch_down
bytes
from the queue and returns them as the POST response body payload
from the queue and returns them as the POST response body payload
-Each incoming request contains up to
MAX_BATCH_UP
bytes of payload.
+Each incoming request contains up to
max_batch_up
bytes of payload.
It's a multipart/form-data.
Authentication: for now, plaintext password
It's a multipart/form-data.
Authentication: for now, plaintext password
-Sever side configuration:
+Routing assistance: none needed; secnet polypath will DTRT
- [<client-ipaddr>] or [default]
- max_batch_down
- max_queue_time
- max_request_time
- password
+Client form parameters (multipart/form-data):
+ m metadata, newline-separated list (text file) of
+ client ip address (textual)
+ password
+ target_requests_outstanding
+ d data (SLIP format, with SLIP_ESC and `-' swapped)
- [global]
- max_batch_down
- max_queue_time
- max_request_time
- [virtual]
- network # required
- server # default is first host in network (eg <network>.1)
- mtu # default is 1500
-
-Client side configuration;
- MAX_BATCH_DOWN MAX_QUEUE_TIME PASSWORD
+Future nonce-based authentication:
-Routing assistance: none needed; secnet polypath will DTRT
+server keeps big nonce counter for each client
+meaning is:
+ nonce counter is most recent nonce client has sent
+also server keeps bitmap of the previous ?64 nonces,
+ whether client has sent them
-Client form parameters:
- i ip address (textual)
- p password
- d data (SLIP format)
- mbd mqt mrt config updates
+client picks.... xxx