Re: Transport level multihoming

[Erik Nordmark <Erik.Nordmark@eng.sun.com>]

> I am not precluding this.  Perhaps I should expand the argument to relax the
> restriction on the 64 bit boundary and say that if a site is multihomed with
> N upper bits, can we consider that if the lower 128-N bits are the same,
> they can be considered the same node address.  Anything else is another
> address.

Peter,

what benefits can we derive from such a restriction?
Is it just implementation ease? (being able to compress the memory
representation of the list of addresses and being able to make more
efficient lookups against the list?)

  Erik