Re: IPv6 Anycast has been killed by LINUX patch in 2016 - who cares?

Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com> Sat, 07 August 2021 18:40 UTC

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From: Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2021 21:39:47 +0300
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Subject: Re: IPv6 Anycast has been killed by LINUX patch in 2016 - who cares?
To: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
Cc: Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com>, 6man WG <ipv6@ietf.org>, IETF discussion list <ietf@ietf.org>
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Peace,

On Sat, Aug 7, 2021, 8:54 PM Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> wrote:

> Aka: what linux does is a perfect lightweight form of
> MP_TCP just without the overhead of different IP addresses
> or port numbers to identify different flows.
>

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this is exactly the opposite of what
MP-TCP is/was going to offer, which is the same flow, transferred via
multiple 5-tuples.

And here we have different flows over the same 5-tuple.

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Töma

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