Re: end-to-end multihoming (was Re: initial issues)

[Stig Venaas <Stig.Venaas@uninett.no>]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:16:13PM +0200, Pekka Nikander wrote:
> > I think the end-to-end multihoming solution should be considered. If you
> > have SCTP with multiple addresses for endpoints (similar has been suggested
> > for TCP), you could have the session survive a failure in one of the site's
> > connections. I've also heard rumors of an SCTP draft for dynamically changing
> > endpoints but I can't find it now. 
> 
> The draft you mention is draft-ietf-sigtran-addip-sctp-00.txt
> 
> BTW, just FYI:  draft-nikander-mobileip-homelessv6-00.txt (soon -01.txt)
> more or less provides a way of handling multiple addresses at the IP layer,
> somewhat similar to SCTP but at the different layer.  It is based on using Mobile 
> IPv6 Binding Updates; however, the proposed kernel data structures are different.
> Currently the proposal is not completely backward compatible for all applications,
> but we are considering various ways of providing full backward compatibility
> for those (hopefully few) applications that need it.

Thanks, I'll have a look. Another draft I found along these lines is
draft-snoeren-tcp-migrate-00.txt.

>From the abstract:
   This document describes a set of TCP options to support the migration
   of an active TCP connection across IP addresses and TCP port numbers.

Stig