Re: Shim6 failure recovery after garbage collection

[Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>]

On 17-Apr-2006, at 20:11, Erik Nordmark wrote:

> Joe Abley wrote:
>
> > One of the more comprehensible objections to shim6 that was raised  
> > at NANOG 35 was from large content providers who currently serve  
> > many thousands of simultaneous clients through load balancers or  
> > other content-aggregation devices (the kind of devices which  
> > switch connections to origin servers without having to store any  
> > locally).
>
> But when I watched the Nanog movie on that session, there seemed to  
> be a prevailing confusion that shim6 would setup state for every  
> TCP connection, when in fact its state is per IP address pair.

Yeah. I was referring to conversations I had afterwards in hallways,  
not to the shouting match itself.


Joe