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

[Melinda Shore <shore at arsc.edu>]

On Sep 28, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Andrew Knutsen wrote:
>   True in many cases...  Perhaps to implement the trace with this  
> option, from a non-static source IP, a static destination IP would  
> have to be included in the target data.  It seems to me this might  
> be reasonable, since the use case I see for this trace is  
> management, where you'd want the response datagrams to go to a  
> management station which would follow up with SNMP or some such.

And we're back to out-of-band solutions to the problem.
I actually don't think this is reasonable - I think
it's based on too many assumptions that don't hold
in a sufficiently large number of cases, or it forces
an architecture that's not widely used.  Either way,
I'm not comfortable with it.

Melinda