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Re: [multipathtcp] Multipath TCP Address advertisement 4/5 - Priorities

Olivier Bonaventure <Olivier.Bonaventure@uclouvain.be> Mon, 14 November 2016 06:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [multipathtcp] Multipath TCP Address advertisement 4/5 - Priorities
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Alan,

> I also think it’s entirely feasible to achieve a lot of the traffic
> engineering here by using TCP control signals - ACKs and window size -
> to slow down communications. As a sender you can already control rate
> based on your local policy, and at the receiving end you could use ACKs,
> ECN, window, etc.

Announcing different receive windows on different subflows is not a good 
idea. RFC6824 notes in section 2.4

    With MPTCP, all subflows share the same receive buffer and advertise
    the same receive window.

This is a safe principle that hosts should respect.


Olivier

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