> No.  Today if you have a set of PA prefixes and your address changes from
one
> to another, your TCP connections all break.

That's true, has been for quite some time, and yet nobody seems to be doing
much about it. Which makes you wonder how big of a problem that is in
practice. If applications were really hurting, you would hear complaints
from application developers. But you don't. The applications that need
reliable long duration sessions incorporate some trivial checkpoint and
restart mechanism, or some pretty elaborate consistency protocols for big
databases. They probably would do that no matter what the reliability of
TCP, as long as it is not "perfect." And PA renumbering is probably not very
high in their list of "stuff that occasionally break TCP."

-- Christian Huitema




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