Re: [tcpm] New version of TCP Option for Transparent Middlebox Discovery available

[Melinda Shore <shore at arsc.edu>]

On Sep 28, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Andrew Knutsen wrote:
>   The point was made off-list that "responding and forwarding"  
> doesn't work, since the response is on the SYN-AK.  However, the  
> action defined for the device-type could be to send a UDP datagram  
> back to the originator, and forward the SYN (with option intact)  
> (unless you're the destination).

That's going to fail if one of the middleboxes is a NAT.

Melinda