Hi Oliviere, > This is typically what sysadmins do when they configure web servers or > other types of servers
Well I meant obviously to ask for other non active IP:Port pairs to be advertised on active session > > 2. Do you envision that such addresses may span multiple servers ? > > Anycast setting is a load balancing problem that is the target for > QUIC's preferred address transport parameter That question was not related to anycast at all. If you allow to advertise IP:PORT pairs for a service there is no need for anycast. > The problem is different. A load balancer is typically a single address > served by a large number of servers. Well nothing prevents you from running a local process acting as LB/traffic director on a server too. Thx a lot, R. On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 9:25 AM Olivier Bonaventure < olivier.bonavent...@uclouvain.be> wrote: > Robert, > > > > Many thx for sharing this proposal. Three easy questions .. > > Thanks for your comments > > > > 1. Do you envision that IP:PORT pairs would be manually configured by > > the operator ? > > This is typically what sysadmins do when they configure web servers or > other types of servers, they indicate in the configuration the addresses > and port the server listens to. On a multihomed server, they either > indicate they the server should listen to all interfaces or a subset of > them. This configuration already exist. > > > 2. Do you envision that such addresses may span multiple servers ? > > Anycast setting is a load balancing problem that is the target for > QUIC's preferred address transport parameter > > > 3. Isn't this a bit overlapping (or to say stronger replacing) function > > of load balancers ? > > > > The problem is different. A load balancer is typically a single address > served by a large number of servers. This is currently the main use case > for QUIC. This is discussed in > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-quic-load-balancers > > In the draft, we focus on isolated servers. These could be web servers > in companies or or example file servers that are running SMB over QUIC > > Best regards, > > > Olivier > >
