On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Erik Nordmark wrote: > > For connection-less protocols, source address should not matter, that > > much. > > The fact that UDP is a connection-less layer 4 protocol doesn't mean > that there aren't protocols above it which assume that they > continue to talk to the same peer (until communication fails).
This can also be turned the other way around: for such protocols, connection failure signals the need to re-establish this "pseudo-connection". This is a big problem only if the anycast group is flapping severely, it seems to me. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
