- 04 Sep, 2008 40 commits
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Gerrit Renker authored
To increase robustness, it is necessary to resend Confirm feature-negotiation options, even though the RFC does not mandate it. But feature negotiation options can take (much) more room than the options on common DataAck packets. Instead of reducing the MPS always for a case which only applies to the three messages send during initial handshake, this patch devises a special case: if the payload length of the DataAck in PARTOPEN is too large, an Ack is sent to carry the options, and the feature-negotiation list is then flushed. This means that the server gets two Acks for one Response. If both Acks get lost, it is probably better to restart the connection anyway and devising yet another special-case does not seem worth the extra complexity. The patch (over-)estimates the expected overhead to be 32*4 bytes -- commonly seen values were 20-90 bytes for initial feature-negotiation options. It uses sizeof(u32) to mean "aligned units of 4 bytes". For consistency, another use of sizeof is modified. Signed-off-by:Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
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Gerrit Renker authored
The Maximum Packet Size (MPS) is of interest for applications which want to transfer data, so it is only relevant to the data transfer phase of a connection (unless one wants to send data on the DCCP-Request, but that is not considered here). The strategy chosen to deal with this requirement is to leave room for only such options that may appear on data packets. A special consideration applies to Ack Vectors: this is purely guesswork, since these can have any length between 3 and 1020 bytes. The strategy chosen here is to subtract a configurable minimum, the value of 16 bytes (2 bytes for type/length plus 14 Ack Vector cells) has been found by experimentatation. If people experience this as too much or too little, this could later be turned into a Kconfig option. There are currently no CCID-specific header options which may appear on data packets, hence it is not necessary to define a corresponding CCID field. Signed-off-by:
Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
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Gerrit Renker authored
This uses the new feature-negotiation framework to signal Ack Ratio changes, as required by RFC 4341, sec. 6.1.2. This raises some problems for CCID-2 since it can at the moment not cope gracefully with Ack Ratio of e.g. 2. A FIXME has thus been added which reverts to the existing policy of bypassing the Ack Ratio sysctl. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This patch provides support for the reception of NN options in (PART)OPEN state. It is a combination of change_recv() and confirm_recv(), specifically geared towards receiving the `fast-path' NN options. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
In contrast to static feature negotiation at the begin of a connection, which establishes the capabilities of both endpoints, this patch introduces support for dynamic exchange of feature negotiation options. Such a dynamic exchange is necessary in at least two cases: * CCID-2's Ack Ratio (RFC 4341, 6.1.2) which changes during the connection; * Sequence Window values that, as per RFC 4340, 7.5.2, should be sent "as as the connection progresses". Both are NN (non-negotiable) features. Hence dynamic feature "negotiation" is distinguished from static/pre-connection negotiation by the following: * no new capabilities are negotiated (those that matter for the connection are negotiated prior to setting up the connection, comparable to SIP); * features must be understood by each endpoint: as per RFC 4340, 6.4, Sequence Window is "Req'd" and Ack Ratio must be understood when CCID-2 is used as per the note underneath Table 4. These characteristics are reflected in the implementation: * only NN options can be exchanged after connection setup; * NN options are activated directly after validating them. The rationale is that a peer must accept every valid NN value (RFC 4340, 6.3.2), hence it will either accept the value and send a "Confirm R", or it will send an empty Confirm (which will reset the connection according to FN rules). * An Ack is scheduled directly after activation to accelerate communicating the update to the peer. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
Since all feature-negotiation processing now takes place in feat.c, functions for producing verbose debugging output are concentrated there. New functions to print out values, entry records, and options are provided, and also a macro is defined to not always have the function name in the output line. Thanks a lot to Wei Yongjun and Giuseppe Galeota for help with errors in an earlier revision of this patch. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This patch takes care of initialising and type-checking sysctls related to feature negotiation. Type checking is important since some of the sysctls now directly act on the feature-negotiation process. The sysctls are initialised with the known default values for each feature. For the type-checking the value constraints from RFC 4340 are used: * Sequence Window uses the specified Wmin=32, the maximum is ulong (4 bytes), tested and confirmed that it works up to 4294967295 - for Gbps speed; * Ack Ratio is between 0 .. 0xffff (2-byte unsigned integer); * CCIDs are between 0 .. 255; * request_retries, retries1, retries2 also between 0..255 for good measure; * tx_qlen is checked to be non-negative; * sync_ratelimit remains as before. Further changes: ---------------- Performed s@sysctl_dccp_feat@sysctl_dccp@g since the sysctls are now in feat.c. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This adds full support for local/remote Sequence Window feature, from which the * sequence-number-validity (W) and * acknowledgment-number-validity (W') windows derive as specified in RFC 4340, 7.5.3. Specifically, the following changes are introduced: * integrated new socket fields into dccp_sk; * updated the update_gsr/gss routines with regard to these fields; * updated handler code: the Sequence Window feature is located at the TX side, so the local feature is meant if the handler-rx flag is false; * the initialisation of `rcv_wnd' in reqsk is removed, since - rcv_wnd is not used by the code anywhere; - sequence number checks are not done in the LISTEN state (cf. 7.5.3); - dccp_check_req checks the Ack number validity more rigorously; * the `struct dccp_minisock' became empty and is now removed. Until the handshake completes with activating negotiated values, the local/remote Sequence-Window values are undefined and thus can not reliably be estimated. This issue is addressed in a separate patch. Signed-off-by: -
Gerrit Renker authored
This adds auto-loading of CCIDs (when module loading is enabled) for the purpose of feature negotiation. The problem with loading the CCIDs at the end of feature negotiation is that this would happen in software interrupt context. Besides, if the host advertises CCIDs during negotiation, it should have them ready to use, in case an agreeing peer wants to use it for the connection. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This initialises feature negotiation from two tables, which are initialised from sysctls. As a novel feature, specifics of the implementation (e.g. currently short seqnos and ECN are not supported) are advertised for robustness. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This removes the use of the sysctl and the minisock variable for the Send Ack Vector feature, which is now handled fully dynamically via feature negotiation; i.e. when CCID2 is enabled, Ack Vectors are automatically enabled (as per RFC 4341, 4.). Using a sysctl in parallel to this implementation would open the door to crashes, since much of the code relies on tests of the boolean minisock / sysctl variable. Thus, this patch replaces all tests of type if (dccp_msk(sk)->dccpms_send_ack_vector) /* ... */ with if (dp->dccps_hc_rx_ackvec != NULL) /* ... */ The dccps_hc_rx_ackvec is allocated by the dccp_hdlr_ackvec() when feature negotiation concluded that Ack Vectors are to be used on the half-connection. Otherwise, it is NULL (due to dccp_init_sock/dccp_create_openreq_child), so that the test is a valid one. The activation handler for Ack Vectors is called as soon as the feature negotiation has concluded at the * server when the Ack marking the transition RESPOND => OPEN arrives; * client after it has sent its ACK, marking the transition REQUEST => PARTOPEN. Adding the sequence number of the Response packet to the Ack Vector has been removed, since (a) connection establishment implies that the Response has been received; (b) the CCIDs only look at packets received in the (PART)OPEN state, i.e. this entry will always be ignored; (c) it can not be used for anything useful - to detect loss for instance, only packets received after the loss can serve as pseudo-dupacks. Signed-off-by: -
Gerrit Renker authored
Updating the NDP count feature is handled automatically now: * for CCID-2 it is disabled, since the code does not use NDP counts; * for CCID-3 it is enabled, as NDP counts are used to determine loss lengths. Allowing the user to change NDP values leads to unpredictable and failing behaviour, since it is then possible to disable NDP counts even when they are needed (e.g. in CCID-3). This means that only those user settings are sensible that agree with the values for Send NDP Count implied by the choice of CCID. But those settings are already activated by the feature negotiation (CCID dependency tracking), hence this form of support is redundant. At startup the initialisation of the NDP count feature is with the default value of 0, which is done implicitly by the zeroing-out of the socket when it is allocated. If the choice of CCID or feature negotiation enables NDP count, this will then be updated via the NDP activation handler. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
The TX/RX CCIDs of the minisock are now redundant: similar to the Ack Vector case, their value equals initially that of the sysctl, but at the end of feature negotiation may be something different. The old interface removed by this patch thus has been replaced by the newer interface to dynamically query the currently loaded CCIDs earlier in this patch set. Also removed the constructors for the TX CCID and the RX CCID, since the switch rx/non-rx is done by the handler in minisocks.c (and the handler is the only place in the code where CCIDs are loaded). Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
The code removed by this patch is no longer referenced or used, the added lines update documentation and copyrights. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This integrates feature-activation in the client, with these details: 1. When dccp_parse_options() fails, the reset code is already set, request_sent _state_process() currently overrides this with `Packet Error', which is not intended - so changed to use the reset code set in dccp_parse_options(); 2. There was a FIXME to change the error code when dccp_ackvec_add() fails. I have looked this up and found that: * the check whether ackno < ISN is already made earlier, * this Response is likely the 1st packet with an Ackno that the client gets, * so when dccp_ackvec_add() fails, the reason is likely not a packet error. 3. When feature negotiation fails, the socket should be marked as not usable, so that the application is notified that an error occurs. This is achieved by a new label, which uses an error code of `Aborted' and which sets the socket state to CLOSED, as well as sk_err. 4. Avoids parsing the Ack twice in Respond state by not doing option processing again in dccp_rcv_respond_partopen_state_process (as option processing has already been done on the request_sock in dccp_check_req). Since this addresses congestion-control initialisation, a corresponding FIXME has been removed. Signed-off-by: -
Gerrit Renker authored
This patch integrates the activation of features at the end of negotiation into the server-side code. Note: In dccp_create_openreq_child the request_sock argument is no longer constant, since dccp_activate_values() uses the feature-negotiation list on dreq to sort out the initialisation values for the different features of the child socket; and purges this queue after use (but the `req' argument to openreq_child can and does still remain constant). Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This first patch out of three replaces the hardcoded default settings with initialisation code for the dynamic feature negotiation. Note on retransmitting Confirm options: --------------------------------------- This patch also defers flushing the client feature-negotiation queue, due to the following considerations. As long as the client is in PARTOPEN, it needs to retransmit the Confirm options for the Change options received on the DCCP-Response from the server. Otherwise, if the packet containing the Confirm options gets dropped in the network, the connection aborts due to undefined feature negotiation state. Thanks to Leandro Melo de Sales who reported a bug in an earlier revision of the patch set, resulting from not retransmitting the Confirm options. The patch now ensures that the client feature-negotiation queue is flushed only when entering the OPEN state. Since confirmed Change options are removed as soon as they are confirmed (in the DCCP-Response), this ensures that Confirm options are retransmitted. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This patch provides the post-processing of feature negotiation state, after the negotiation has completed. To this purpose, handlers are used and added to the dccp_feat_table. Each handler is passed a boolean flag whether the RX or TX side of the feature is meant. Several handlers are provided already, new handlers can easily be added. The initialisation is now fully dynamic, i.e. CCIDs are activated only after the feature negotiation. The integration of this dynamic activation is done in the subsequent patches. Thanks to Wei Yongjun for pointing out the necessity of skipping over empty Confirm options while copying the negotiated feature values. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
Analogous to the previous patch, this adds code to interpret incoming Confirm feature-negotiation options. Both functions operate on the feature-negotiation list of either the request_sock (server) or the dccp_sock (client). Thanks to Wei Yongjun for pointing out that it is overly restrictive to check the entire list of confirmed SP values. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This adds/replaces code for processing incoming ChangeL/R options. The main difference is that: * mandatory FN options are now interpreted inside the function (there are too many individual cases to do this externally); * the function returns an appropriate Reset code or 0, which is then used to fill in the data for the Reset packet. Old code, which is no longer used or referenced, has been removed. Signed-off-by: -
Gerrit Renker authored
This provides two functions to * reconcile preference lists (with appropriate return codes) and * reorder the preference list if successful reconciliation changed the preferred value. The patch also removes the old code for processing SP/NN Change options, since new code to process these is mostly there already; related references have been commented out. The code for processing Change options follows in the next patch. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
The patch implements insertion of feature negotiation at the server (listening and request socket) and the client (connecting socket). In dccp_insert_options(), several statements have been grouped together now to achieve (I hope) better efficiency by reducing the number of tests each packet has to go through: - Ack Vectors are sent if the packet is neither a Data or a Request packet; - a previous issue is corrected - feature negotiation options are allowed on DataAck packets (5.8). Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This patch replaces the earlier insertion routine from options.c, so that code specific to feature negotiation can remain in feat.c. This is possible by calling a function already existing in options.c. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
The patch extends existing code: * Confirm options divide into the confirmed value plus an optional preference list for SP values. Previously only the preference list was echoed for SP values, now the confirmed value is added as per RFC 4340, 6.1; * length and sanity checks are added to avoid illegal memory (or NULL) access. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
Support for Mandatory options is provided by this patch, which will be used by subsequent feature-negotiation patches. Signed-off-by:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Gerrit Renker authored
This extends the scope of two available functions, encode|decode_value_var, to work up to 6 (8) bytes, to match maximum requirements in the RFC. These functions are going to be used both by general option processing and feature negotiation code, hence declarations have been put into feat.h. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This provides function to query the current TX/RX CCID dynamically, without reliance on the minisock value, using dynamic information available in the currently loaded CCID module. This query function is then used to (a) provide the getsockopt part for getting/setting CCIDs via sockopts; (b) replace the current test for "which CCID is in use" in probe.c. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
With this patch, TX/RX CCIDs can now be changed on a per-connection basis, which overrides the defaults set by the global sysctl variables for TX/RX CCIDs. To make full use of this facility, the remaining patches of this patch set are needed, which track dependencies and activate negotiated feature values. Note on the maximum number of CCIDs that can be registered: ----------------------------------------------------------- The maximum number of CCIDs that can be registered on the socket is constrained by the space in a Confirm/Change feature negotiation option. The space in these in turn depends on the size of header options as defined in RFC 4340, 5.8. Since this is a recurring constant, it has been moved from ackvec.h into linux/dccp.h, clarifying its purpose. Relative to this size, the maximum number of CCID identifiers that can be present in a Confirm option (which always consumes 1 byte more than a Change option, cf. 6.1) is 2 bytes less than the maximum TLV size: one for the CCID-feature-type and one for the selected value. Signed-off-by: -
Gerrit Renker authored
This splits the setsockopt calls into two groups, depending on whether an integer argument (val) is required and whether routines being called do their own locking. Some options (such as setting the CCID) use u8 rather than int, so that for these the test with regard to integer-sizeof can not be used. The second switch-case statement now only has those statements which need locking and which make use of `val'. Signed-off-by:
Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
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Gerrit Renker authored
This patch deprecates the Ack Ratio sysctl, since * Ack Ratio is entirely ignored by CCID-3 and CCID-4, * Ack Ratio currently doesn't work in CCID-2 (i.e. is always set to 1); * even if it would work in CCID-2, there is no point for a user to change it: - Ack Ratio is constrained by cwnd (RFC 4341, 6.1.2), - if Ack Ratio > cwnd, the system resorts to spurious RTO timeouts (since waiting for Acks which will never arrive in this window), - cwnd is not a user-configurable value. The only reasonable place for Ack Ratio is to print it for debugging. It is planned to do this later on, as part of e.g. dccp_probe. With this patch Ack Ratio is now under full control of feature negotiation: * Ack Ratio is resolved as a dependency of the selected CCID; * if the chosen CCID supports it (i.e. CCID == CCID-2), Ack Ratio is set to the default of 2, following RFC 4340, 11.3 - "New connections start with Ack Ratio 2 for both endpoints"; * what happens then is part of another patch set, since it concerns the dynamic update of Ack Ratio while the connection is in full flight. Thanks to Tomasz Grobelny for discussion leading up to this patch. Signed-off-by: -
Gerrit Renker authored
This provides feature negotiation for server minimum checksum coverage which so far has been missing. Since sender/receiver coverage values range only from 0...15, their type has also been reduced in size from u16 to u4. Feature-negotiation options are now generated for both sender and receiver coverage, i.e. when the peer has `forgotten' to enable partial coverage then feature negotiation will automatically enable (negotiate) the partial coverage value for this connection. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
The previous setsockopt interface, which passed socket options via struct dccp_so_feat, is complicated/difficult to use. Continuing to support it leads to ugly code since the old approach did not distinguish between NN and SP values. This patch removes the old setsockopt interface and replaces it with two new functions to register NN/SP values for feature negotiation. These are essentially wrappers around the internal __feat_register functions, with checking added to avoid * wrong usage (type); * changing values while the connection is in progress. Signed-off-by: -
Gerrit Renker authored
This adds a hook to resolve features whose value depends on the choice of CCID. It is done at the server since it can only be done after the CCID values have been negotiated; i.e. the client will add its CCID preference list on the Change options sent in the Request, which will be reconciled with the local preference list of the server. The concept is documented on http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/feature_negotiation/\ implementation_notes.html#ccid_dependencies Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This provides a missing link in the code chain, as several features implicitly depend and/or rely on the choice of CCID. Most notably, this is the Send Ack Vector feature, but also Ack Ratio and Send Loss Event Rate (also taken care of). For Send Ack Vector, the situation is as follows: * since CCID2 mandates the use of Ack Vectors, there is no point in allowing endpoints which use CCID2 to disable Ack Vector features such a connection; * a peer with a TX CCID of CCID2 will always expect Ack Vectors, and a peer with a RX CCID of CCID2 must always send Ack Vectors (RFC 4341, sec. 4); * for all other CCIDs, the use of (Send) Ack Vector is optional and thus negotiable. However, this implies that the code negotiating the use of Ack Vectors also supports it (i.e. is able to supply and to either parse or ignore received Ack Vectors). Since this is not the case (CCID-3 has no Ack Vector support), the use of Ack Vectors is here disabled, with a comment in the source code. An analogous consideration arises for the Send Loss Event Rate feature, since the CCID-3 implementation does not support the loss interval options of RFC 4342. To make such use explicit, corresponding feature-negotiation options are inserted which signal the use of the loss event rate option, as it is used by the CCID3 code. Lastly, the values of the Ack Ratio feature are matched to the choice of CCID. The patch implements this as a function which is called after the user has made all other registrations for changing default values of features. The table is variable-length, the reserved (and hence for feature-negotiation invalid, confirmed by considering section 19.4 of RFC 4340) feature number `0' is used to mark the end of the table. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This provides a data structure to record which CCIDs are locally supported and three accessor functions: - a test function for internal use which is used to validate CCID requests made by the user; - a copy function so that the list can be used for feature-negotiation; - documented getsockopt() support so that the user can query capabilities. The data structure is a table which is filled in at compile-time with the list of available CCIDs (which in turn depends on the Kconfig choices). Using the copy function for cloning the list of supported CCIDs is useful for feature negotiation, since the negotiation is now with the full list of available CCIDs (e.g. {2, 3}) instead of the default value {2}. This means negotiation will not fail if the peer requests to use CCID3 instead of CCID2. Signed-off-by: -
Gerrit Renker authored
Two registration routines, for SP and NN features, are provided by this patch, replacing a previous routine which was used for both feature types. These are internal-only routines and therefore start with `__feat_register'. It further exports the known limits of Sequence Window and Ack Ratio as symbolic constants. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This patch starts the new implementation of feature negotiation: 1. Although it is theoretically possible to perform feature negotiation at any time (and RFC 4340 supports this), in practice this is prohibitively complex, as it requires to put traffic on hold for each new negotiation. 2. As a byproduct of restricting feature negotiation to connection setup, the feature-negotiation retransmit timer is no longer required. This part is now mapped onto the protocol-level retransmission. Details indicating why timers are no longer needed can be found on http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/dccp/notes/feature_negotiation/\ implementation_notes.html This patch disables anytime negotiation, subsequent patches work out full feature negotiation support for connection setup. Signed-off-by: -
Gerrit Renker authored
This inserts the required de-allocation routines for memory allocated by feature negotiation in the socket destructors, replacing dccp_feat_clean() in one instance. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This provides feature-negotiation initialisation for both DCCP sockets and DCCP request_sockets, to support feature negotiation during connection setup. It also resolves a FIXME regarding the congestion control initialisation. Thanks to Wei Yongjun for help with the IPv6 side of this patch. Signed-off-by:
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Gerrit Renker authored
This adds list fields and list management functions for the new feature negotiation implementation. The new code is kept in parallel to the old code, until removed at the end of the patch set. Thanks to Arnaldo for suggestions to improve the code. Signed-off-by:
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