[c-nsp] IP SLA

[Christophe Fillot]

Saku Ytti wrote:


>> I have been looking at IP SLA and was wondering whether there are any appliances around which emulate Ciscos IP SLA so that you can use it as a responder, or even better, the transmitter end?
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> Have you found any? I'd be very interested in commercial solution also.
> Preferably one which does hardware timestamping.
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I've written a small responder that handles TCP connect, UDP echo and 
UDP jitter operations (for IPv4/IPv6),
but unfortunately I don't know if I can publish it for the reasons you 
gave below.
The protocol is easy to decode anyway.

> IP SLA is proprietary protocol, so technically if you want to do commercial
> solution, you'd need to buy permission for it from Cisco. And I know many
> people buying dedicated Cisco CPE for IP SLA responders, so it might be
> that companies have tried to build IP SLA responders but Cisco has said no.
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