[Git][NTPsec/ntpsec][master] Clarify the Mode 6 paayload limit.

[Eric S. Raymond]

Eric S. Raymond pushed to branch master at NTPsec / ntpsec


Commits:
55b0f3f9 by Eric S. Raymond at 2018-10-18T02:49:13Z
Clarify the Mode 6 paayload limit.

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1 changed file:

- docs/mode6.txt


Changes:

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docs/mode6.txt
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@@ -96,6 +96,12 @@ reassembling the payloads.
 All multibyte numeric fields are interpreted as big-endian
 2s-complement integers.
 
+The maximum length of the Mode 6 payload is constrained by the
+minimum-maximum USP payload size of 576. As of late 2018 there is no
+language in the NTP RFCs pinning it down. A draft RFC on Mode 6 says
+it's 500 octets, which is far in excess of any plausible request or
+response size in the actual protocol.
+
 [[varlists]]
 == Variable-Value Lists ==
 



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