RE: Multihoming by IP Layer Address Rewriting (MILAR)

[Ramakrishna Gummadi <ramki@cs.berkeley.edu>]

> For multi-address multihoming to work, we need to know more than one
> address the time of session establishment. Preferably before setting up a
> session, but certainly well before the setup times out. However,
> traditional multiple A/AAAA records should suffice for this purpose.

I disagree. It is possible to build a  layer 3 solution using multiple
addresses that provides high availability semantics to each address, even
if that address is not directly reachable. My draft says how.