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"Henderickx, Wim (Nokia - BE)" <wim.henderickx@nokia.com> Mon, 08 August 2016 16:49 UTC

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From: "Henderickx, Wim (Nokia - BE)" <wim.henderickx@nokia.com>
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Subject: Re: [multipathtcp] towards a potential work item on two-ended proxy
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Phil, in-line




On 08/08/16 11:19, "philip.eardley@bt.com" <philip.eardley@bt.com> wrote:

>>
>>Phil:
>>What are the interactions with endhost-to-endhost MPTCP?  I imagined there wouldn’t be any, but it sounds like there are some.
>
>WH> there should be none, but the proxy should ensure he doesn’t touch it. Hence we are looking to understand if a dual ended proxy should  perform a proxy function or not. So the end-host is not impacted but the network-assisted proxies would be made aware what to do. Make sense?
>> 
>Afraid not. 
>(personal view) if I get it right, a (?router, ?proxy) has to distinguish whether the (?mptcp signalling message ?every packet) is part of end-to-end mptcp connection, or part of mptcp proxied connection. That seems to add overhead, an may mean you have to be careful about the deployment.

> 
>A dual ended proxy so far was meant in a controlled environment, so indeed if you have this requirement you need to control deployment.

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