Re: [multipathtcp] [Int-area] SOCKS 6 Draft

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Thu, 20 July 2017 17:31 UTC

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On 7/20/2017 12:22 AM, Dragoș Niculescu wrote:
>> I.e., if you do everything right, you MIGHT end up looking "LIKE" you
>> rewrote the TCP SYN as it "passes through", but speaking of that as the
>> actual mechanism violates TCP.
> It looks like that IF the client has idempotent data, and IF the client uses TFO API, and IF the proxy enables TFO as a client and as a server, and IF the actual server supports TFO. So, there are a lot of IFs to get that kind of performance, but as shown in slide 9 of the presentation [1], it does work with standard API, only twice as slow.  
Agreed, but the text could be much more clear that this is the goal and
expected outcome.

Joe