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[iccrg] Disadvantages of TCP connection splitters

Michael Welzl <michawe@ifi.uio.no> Fri, 10 January 2020 08:54 UTC

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Subject: [iccrg] Disadvantages of TCP connection splitters
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Hi,

I’ve been thinking a lot about TCP connection splitters lately ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3135#section-2.4 ).

I’m curious: what are the real practical disadvantages of this type of PEPs that people have seen?
I'll appreciate any kind of feedback, also anecdotes, but pointers to citable papers would be best.

BTW, let’s keep multi-path apart from this discussion please. My question is about single path TCP.

Cheers,
Michael

PS: I’m not trying to indirectly hint that such devices would be *always good*. However, the scenarios where they are not strike me as surprisingly narrow, so I wonder if I’m missing more.

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