Peace, On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 3:27 AM Tom Herbert <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Transport connections follow the end-to-end model. Transport state is > maintained at the endpoints and not in the network Ideally, yes, this is what we have IPv6 for: to eliminate NAT which is the (part of the) transport state maintained in the network. > If a connection is still useful after 12 hours, and everyone is happy, > why tear it down and start over? Yep, no need, why? You just need to be prepared that it would eventually break. > How does anycast work with Multipath TCP? Wouldn't each subflow > potentially be routed to a different anycast host? Depends on the architecture of the application. Might work well, or might not work. -- Töma
