>>>>> It also looks like (at first glance at least) these devices work only >>>>> when there isn't multipath between the back and front side. >>>> >>>> The A+P routers are stateless and do support multipath. Including traffic >>>> does not need to be symmetric. >>>> That’s the main selling point for A+P, that you don’t need per flow state >>>> in the core of the network. >>> >>> The +P part doesn’t seem like it’s compatible with fragmentation, though - >>> yet it doesn’t update RFC791 to deprecate it throughout the Internet. >> >> It’s not incompatible with fragmentation. Just that there are some pitfalls. >> As explained in rfc7597. > > A flawed solution is not reason to break the rest of the Internet by > deprecating fragmentation. > >> ...If you can solve this problem in a better way please go ahead. > > I don’t have to, nor do I care to. But it isn’t productive to break another > part of the Internet in the search for a solution to this problem.
I don’t think that the runout of IPv4 addresses should come as a surprise to any one… nor that it has implications on the architecture of the Internet. I think you are in the rough here… Cheers, Ole _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list Int-area@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
