Re: TSP (draft-blanchet-v6ops-tunnelbroker-tsp-00) comments

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Florent Parent wrote:
> >> > 4) SASL doesn't work with UDP, so my guess is that the whole UDP
> >> > signalling must have been some kind of glitch in the spec.
> >>
> >> I will improve in next version. (it works, I'm using it every day...)
> >
> > Hmm.. unless I looked at it wrong, the SASL spec disagrees with you
> > :-).
> 
> SASL spec supports "connection-based protocols". Using UDP requires you to 
> establish and maintain a "connection" for the duration of the 
> authentication exchange and tunnel setup.
> 
> This will be explain in the next rev., along with the "reliable UDP" stuff.

Why exactly is UDP used here?  For signalling, TCP should be fine, and 
the actual tunnel doesn't use SASL in any case.

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