Re: scope of solution..

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

Bora,

It distributes the problem and we are hearing Ipv6 implementors being open
to writing the code see Ohta's draft too.

/jim

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Bora Akyol wrote:

> Why is it a good idea to involve the hosts in a site as part of the
> multi-homing solution?
> 
> If this WG decides to involve the hosts as part of the multi-homing for
> IPv6, to what extent will they be involved.
> 
> My own inclination is to support multi-homing at the router level and do
> not require anything other than a basic default route for most hosts.
> 
> Bora
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, 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..
> >
> >
> 
>