RE: Multihoming by IP Layer Address Rewriting (MILAR)

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

Hi Christian,

> bit puzzled by your comment about layered implementations. There is a
> rhetorical question about whether multi-homing could be entirely hidden
> by the network so that hosts don't have anything to do, but the truth is
> that we have multi-homed hosts to manage, which means the question is
> very much settled.

As I am saying all along, network (Internet) *can* handle multihoming
completely even if only multi-homed hosts, and not sites are to be managed.
I submitted a draft to ietf yesterday that says how this can be done, and
it is available at:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ramki/draft-ramki-multi6-nlmp-00.txt

regards,
ramki