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

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

On 19/12/2014 14:49, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>>> Boutier's version of mosh builds connections across all source/destination
>>> pairs, and picks the one with lowest RTT.  
> 
>> Sounds interesting. In the ideal world, that would be a pluggable
>> policy algorithm. Lowest RTT may not always be the best choice.
> 
> It is, in our particular context.  That's the nice thing about working at
> the application layer -- you are the application, so you have a pretty
> good idea of what the desirable properties are.  Mosh is an interactive
> shell, and in this particular context it's latency you want to optimise
> for.

Are you sure? Suppose I open a file transfer window (which as a matter
of fact I do almost every time I use SSH these days). For large file
transfers
I might want to specify "cheapest" not "fastest".

> Once we gain some real-world experience from mosh, we can think about
> making something more generic.  But I, at least, don't feel comfortable
> about doing that.

Understood. But all I'm thinking is that you might make that bit a
self-contained
module.

    Brian