Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> > 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.
    >>
    >> I think that this might be exactly what the application might want.
    >> As stable-connectivity doesn't detail the requirements of the 
application,
    >> the point of this section is to point out that the bandwidth limitations 
of
    >> the ACP need not be a constraint when the network is healthy.

    > But that ducks the security issue. I don't think that's OK. Since the ACP
    > secures connections *below* TCP and MPTCP allows paths that bypass the 
ACP,
    > this is a security hole you can drive a large truck through.

Yes, AFAIK, MPTCP doesn't just appear without awareness of the application.

Use of MPTCP implies application layer security if there are non-ACP paths.

I think that 95% of ASAs will live in a container/network-namespace/VRF that
sees ACP interfaces only.  Those that do not need to take care anyway.

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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
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