Re: Transport level multihoming

[Peter Tattam <peter@jazz-1.trumpet.com.au>]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Greg Maxwell wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > Daniel,
> >
> > If I could avoid the conclusion that we are forced into transport level
> > gymnastics, I would be delighted. But remember that the scaling arguments
> > are several orders of magnitude worse than in the 802.5 case (potentially
> > many millions of entries in a flat routing table, as opposed to a few thousand
> > for LAN bridging tables.)
> 
> For transport level multi-homing, you'll need a higher level distributed
> database to keep track of all the address->host mappings. Fortunately, we
> already have one designed for just that purpose: DNS.

Not necessarily.  You just need enough address information to hook into the
peer.  With my idea, any additional addresses can be exchanged at SYN/ACK
time.


Peter

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