RE: Transport level multihoming

[Coene Lode <Lode.Coene@siemens.atea.be>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ran Atkinson [mailto:rja@extremenetworks.com]
> Sent: dinsdag 3 april 2001 20:39
> To: Greg Maxwell
> Cc: multi6@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Transport level multihoming
> 
> 
> 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 ?  

There is already a API draft for SCTP which might give you ideas:
http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-stewart-sctpsocket-sigtran-02.t
xt

> 
> 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 ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ran
> 
> 

Yours sincerly
Lode Coene

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