note, i went off-topic in my previous note, and i'll be answering florian on namedroppers@ since it's not operational. chris's note was operational:
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:18:11 -0400 From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
awesome, how does that work with devices in the f-root-anycast design? (both local hosts in the rack and if I flip from rack to rack) If I send along a request to a host which I do not have an association created do I get a failure and then re-setup? (inducing further latency)
yes. so, association setup cost will occur once per route-change event. note that the f-root-anycast design already hashes by flow within a rack to keep TCP from failing, so the only route-change events of interest to this point are in wide area BGP.
...: "Do loadbalancers, or loadbalanced deployments, deal with this properly?" (loadbalancers like F5, citrix, radware, cisco, etc...)
as far as i know, no loadbalancer understands SCTP today. if they can be made to pass SCTP through unmodified and only do their enhanced L4 on UDP and TCP as they do now, all will be well. if not then a loadbalancer upgrade or removal will be nec'y for anyone who wants to deploy SCTP. it's interesting to me that existing deployments of L4-aware packet level devices can form a barrier to new kinds of L4. it's as if the internet is really just the web, and our networks are TCP/UDP networks not IP networks.