Brian, On Aug 8, 2012, at 12:52 AM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If they are connected external to your network then obviously they would >> have to be restarted ... but then you know that already. :) > And any mission-critical application that can't survive a disconnect and > reconnect is badly broken anyway. I've never understood why session survival > was so highly rated; this has vastly complicated every discussion of > multihoming for many years. The Law of Conservation of Complexity[1]? Forcing applications to deal with disconnect/reconnect means they're much more complicated than if they can assume the session is always there and there are many more applications (and application developers, particular those that do it poorly) than networks. Regards, -drc [1] I thought I was being snarky. Imagine my surprise when I just discovered this actually exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_conservation_of_complexity