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On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:19:27PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > > >On Oct 14, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Joe Abley wrote: > > > >Since shim6 requires changes in protocol stacks on nodes, my > >impression has been that it isn't a _site_ multihoming solution, > >but rather a _node_ multihoming solution. Is my impression incorrect? > > There is no shortage of rough corners to file down, and I am behind > on my shim6 mail, but the general idea is to let end sites multi-home > in the "bag-o-PA-prefixes" style and let the nodes within that site > use their multiple globally-unique addresses (one per upstream, say) > to allow sessions to survive rehoming events. the kicker here is that the applications then need some serious smarts to do proper source address selection. > >I suspect will be required is real _site_ multihoming. Something > >that will take existing v6 customer sites and allow them to be > >multi-homed without modification to each and every v6 stack within > >the site. > > For end sites, that's a wildly-held opinion. wildly or widely? :) > Joe --bill
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