RE: Transport level multihoming

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Maxwell [mailto:gmaxwell@martin.fl.us]
> Sent: dinsdag 3 april 2001 21:47
> To: Joe Abley
> Cc: Ran Atkinson; multi6@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Transport level multihoming
> 
> 
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Joe Abley wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:38:55PM -0400, Ran Atkinson wrote:
> > 
> > RFC2960 describes SCTP, which may be relevant.
> 
> Of most intrest is section 6.9. 
> 
> I'm not aware of any RFC that discusses transport level multihoming as
> general concept.
> 
> 
> 
Not a RFC, but (hopefully) soon :-)
http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sigtran-sctp-applicability
-05.txt
It describes the issues that we have found with multihoming, including a
little problem that SCTP itself cannot solve. 

Yours sincerly,
Lode 


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