Melinda Shore wrote: > Scott Brim wrote: >> I was asking how the site knows when its hosts peers have been upgraded, >> so that it can allow their traffic to be routed out multiple interfaces. > > Yeah, exactly, although the canonical Unix-y way to > do this would be to try it and see what you get back. > If it doesn't work, catch the error and fall back to > whatever it is you've planned to fall back to. > There are obvious problems with this in a network > environment (latency, resource consumption) but it's > already how the IETF has chosen to deal with NAT > traversal (ICE) so I expect there's a reasonable > question about whether or not connectivity tests can > (or should) be extended to transport, etc.. Yeah because resource reservation and and capability negotiation are definitely thing we want to have to do on an IP network before initiating a connection. > Melinda > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf