Re: [tcpm] End to End Proprietary Information Field - Request for a new TCP option
Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> Sat, 27 September 2008 16:29 UTC
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Subject: Re: [tcpm] End to End Proprietary Information Field - Request for a new TCP option
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At 01:22 p.m. 26/09/2008, Ish Shalom, Ran wrote: >Thank you for your comments. I certainly agree with your stand that we >should not make TCP proprietary. My proposal was not to make it >proprietary but to assign an option to allow us to communicate local >information (such as private IP addresses and local ports) end to end >despite the many gateways that may change this information in the header >fields. A TCP option is still a header field, and packet scrubbers may simply remove that option. That said, it doesn't look like clean design the approach you are describing (stuffing IP addresses in TCP, or applications dealing with IP addresses in the first place). Kind regards, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: fernando@gont.com.ar || fgont@acm.org PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1 _______________________________________________ tcpm mailing list tcpm@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tcpm
- [tcpm] End to End Proprietary Information Field -… Ish Shalom, Ran
- Re: [tcpm] End to End Proprietary Information Fie… Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] End to End Proprietary Information Fie… Ish Shalom, Ran
- Re: [tcpm] End to End Proprietary Information Fie… Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] End to End Proprietary Information Fie… Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] End to End Proprietary Information Fie… Ish Shalom, Ran
- Re: [tcpm] End to End Proprietary Information Fie… Joe Touch
- Re: [tcpm] End to End Proprietary Information Fie… Fernando Gont