Re: [homenet] sorting out the right ipv6 addr to choose and name in a source specific world

[Juliusz Chroboczek <[e-mail]>]

Shouldn't we reduce the amount of cross-posting at some point?

>> mptcp, I'm told, is likely to show up in Apple and Google products and
>> infrastructure, and my idea (and many others) is that you don't always have
>> to pick the perfect address for the SYN, just one that works, but rather one
>> can add better addresses as one discovers them.

> But bad luck if you need UDP.

> Some form of intelligent probing does seem to be the answer,

I'd like to attract your attention to the work that Matthieu Boutier has
been doing on mosh, Keith Winstein's UDP-based ssh replacement:

  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.mosh.devel/749

Boutier's version of mosh builds connections across all source/destination
pairs, and picks the one with lowest RTT.  It's a work in progress --
there are multiple versions, and Matthieu has yet to decide which
implementation he's going to submit for inclusion in mainline mosh.

We hope to write that stuff down when Matthieu has decided which is the
"right" version, but I'm not promising any hard deadlines -- we have a lot
of stuff that we want to write down.

> but certainly that needs to be generic because we cannot expect
> all apps developers to reinvent it.

Uh-huh.  But there's only one thing that's worse than generalising from
one example -- it's generalising from zero eexamples.

> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-naderi-ipv6-probing recently.

I'll have a look, thanks for the pointer.

-- Juliusz