Brian,
On Aug 8, 2012, at 12:52 AM, Brian E Carpenter
<brian(_dot_)e(_dot_)carpenter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> 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