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

<philip.eardley@bt.com> Mon, 08 August 2016 09:19 UTC

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>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.