Re: Transport level multihoming

[Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell@martin.fl.us>]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Ran Atkinson wrote:

> At 14:10 03/04/01, Greg Maxwell wrote:
> >It is totally feasible to implement a self-multihomed-transport-protocol
> >with the exactly the same level of API change as is required for IPv6
> >support.
> 
> It would help the rest of us if there were an Internet-Draft
> describing this that we could study.  You seem to have something
> quite specific in your mind.  Would you mind putting
> one together with your specific proposal ?  

I've been discussing this with Randall Stewart (an author of the SCTP
RFC).
 
> For my own part, some immediate questions that you might want
> to clarify for the I-D would include:
>         - What identifier takes the place of the IP address 
>           in this API?
>         - How does one modify TCP and UDP to work with the new
>           system ?
>         - How does the new API handle UDP traffic to multicast
>           destinations ?

Added to the list.