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Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

  • From: Joe Abley
  • Date: Fri Oct 14 15:26:55 2005 
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On 14-Oct-2005, at 15:16, Owen DeLong wrote:
BTW, as I read it, SHIM6 requires not only modification to ALL nodes at the
site,
but, modification to ALL nodes to which the node needs reliable
connectivity.
For one host with multiple, globally-unqiue addresses to talk optimally to another similarly-equipped host, such that failures in reachability of individual addresses should not cause sessions to fail, both hosts would need to be shim6-capable.

In other words, SHIM6 is not fully useful until it is fully ubiquitous in
virtually all IPv6 stacks.
Which is not to say that there is no value in a non-ubiquitous deployment -- rather, the value will grow as deployment proceeds.


Joe

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