Re: scope of solution..

[Jim Bound <seamus@bit-net.com>]

Brian,

Its trivial with ND extenstion as I proposed and I agree with Francis
adding the code has some interesting challenges for the implementation but
can be done in new ND cache if end nodes are not using routing cache.

/jim

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> > 
> > one of Margaret Wasserman's notes talked about the solution coming
> > from either "the routing system" or "the hosts".
> > 
> > Since we're talking about *site* multihoming, there are (at least)
> > three scopes here:
> > 
> >  - the routing systems of the ISP's outside the site
> > 
> >  - the routing system within the site
> > 
> >  - the hosts within the site.
> > 
> > A scalable multihoming solution could involve some form of
> > coordination between the site's routers and the site's hosts..
> 
> Possibly, but that would also require the site's routers to have
> knowledge about the state of IDR, in order to give useful hints
> to the hosts. This is not trivial.
> 
>    Brian
>