Hi Micheal,

to clarify one part below: 

> Am 05.01.2018 um 23:30 schrieb Michael Richardson <[email protected]>:
> 
> 
> Mirja Kühlewind <[email protected]> wrote:
>> "DNS naming is set up to provide the ACP IPv6 address of network
>> devices.  Unbeknownst to the application, MPTCP is used.  MPTCP
>> mutually discovers between the NOC and network device the data-plane
>> address and caries all traffic across it when that MPTCP subflow
>> across the data-plane can be built."
> 
> Section 2.1.5 is discussion, it discusses ways in which the
> anticipated low performance (compared to what the box might do with its
> hardware accelerated forwarding).
> 
> If we have an application that needs the bandwidth of the native hardware,
> the connection can be initated over the ACP (that's what would be in DNS).
> One presumes that an MPTCP layer could then enumerate the available IPs at
> each end and then start off additional flows on the other destinations.

MPTCP adda an additional TCP flow but for the application that still looks like 
one flow. As I said I’m not sure if that is what you want.

Mirja


> 
> The application would have to include application security, since it would
> not be protected by the ACP.
> 
> Perhaps MPTCP doesn't work this way.
> 
>> However, I'm actually uncertain how this is supposed to work and what
>> "Unbeknownst to the application" should mean. If another address should be
>> signaled to the other host, this needs to be indicated by the application or 
>> at
>> least some kind of policy framework above MPTCP. Also MPTCP will by default 
>> use
>> both paths simultaneously while still looking like one connection to the
>> application, meaning the application has no control which path is used for
>> which traffic. I guess you can open a second subflow and then configure the
>> first subflow as backup path but I'm not sure if that's what you want (given
>> the application/policy framework will still not know which path is used)..?
>> Please provide more information about what the expected usage scenario is 
>> here.
> 
> 
> --
> Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
> -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
> 
> 
> 

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