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

[Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen at jauu.net>]

* Andrew Knutsen | 2009-09-25 11:51:36 [-0700]:

>   The usual, current case is when you're trying to set up a
>compression tunnel.  In this topology, you have four devices: client,
>edge, core and server (the middle two are middleboxes). The edge
>intercepts a connection from the client, and wants to see if there is
>a core box in the path to the server.  However, if there isn't, the
>connection should not be delayed.
>
>  This is described in the "terminology" section, and referenced
>later. We didn't want to go too far into use cases, but if the
>consensus is that the draft needs more in this area we'll add it.

No use cases, but a more detailed high level description would be helpful. I
missed that too.


HGN


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