Re: [Int-area] [tcpm] draft-williams-overlaypath-ip-tcp-rfc

2012-12-21 Thread Scharf, Michael (Michael)
Brandon, Your are correct that the option could be problematic if added to a full-sized packet, or even a nearly full one. I can see that the document should have some discussion of this issue. Yes. In a case like ours, where the overlay network uses tunneling, transparently adding the

Re: [Int-area] [tcpm] draft-williams-overlaypath-ip-tcp-rfc

2012-12-21 Thread Brandon Williams
Michael, Extending the overlay all the way to the application server would mean that existing solutions for load balancing, SSL offload, intrusion detection, diagnostic logging, etc. would not work. In other words, there are many systems in a common enterprise environment that would benefit