Re: [multipathtcp] towards a potential work item on two-ended proxy

"Henderickx, Wim (Nokia - BE)" <wim.henderickx@nokia.com> Mon, 01 August 2016 19:05 UTC

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From: "Henderickx, Wim (Nokia - BE)" <wim.henderickx@nokia.com>
To: Rao Shoaib <rao.shoaib@oracle.com>, "multipathtcp@ietf.org" <multipathtcp@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [multipathtcp] towards a potential work item on two-ended proxy
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On 01/08/16 20:42, "Rao Shoaib" <rao.shoaib@oracle.com> wrote:

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>On 08/01/2016 07:13 AM, Henderickx, Wim (Nokia - BE) wrote:
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>>> Why is it necessary to know that the connection has been proxied ?
>> WH> Otherwise the concentrator will perform the proxy function although the destination is the application server.
>> So assume an E2E MPTCP flow. The UE initiates it and the element with the network assisted MPTCP proxy (Concentrator) receives it. The concentrator should not proxy this flow. It should only act upon MPTCP flow that should be proxied in network assisted mode. This is the reason we need an indication about this
>This seems like a deployment issue not a protocol issue. The decision to 
>proxy or not proxy should be based on the IP addresses or out of band 
>signaling. After all the entity adding the option some how knows to add 
>the option.
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>I liked the initial proposal as it did not require any changes to the 
>protocol. These change (as I have said before) seem very deployment 
>specific and IMHO should not be part of the protocol.
WH> I would disagree since you don’t always control the addressing and it is better to have an explicit signaling in the protocol what to expect to happen.
>>>> In the plain-mode, the HAG does not need to be on the path to/from the
>>>> client. The plain-mode option is used to signal the original
>>>> source/destination address of the connection depending on the usage.
>>> Since we seem to be only considering TCP, will the protocol field be
>>> removed from the draft ?
>> WH> this is to be discussed
>It has to be or we are allowing protocol encapsulation. In which case we 
>need to define the complete mechanism.
WH> I would agree to that
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>Rao
>>> Shoaib
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>>>> Olivier
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