Re: multihomed host

[Yoshihiro Ohba <yohba@tari.toshiba.com>]

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Thank you all for helping me understand.

I have additional question below.

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:21:34PM -0700, Michel Py wrote:
> On the other hand,
> > Yoshihiro Ohba wrote:
> > There may be some scenario in which a single-interface
> > host is connected to multiple ISPs on the same link, which
> > seems to be not covered in the usual definition for
> > "multihomed host". I don't know what to call the model,
> > but is such a model already common? Or is there any
> > ongoing work on this model?
> 
> This is possible as of today; a host that has multiple PA addresses is
> certainly considered a multihomed host. However, this alone is not a
> multihoming solution.
> 

What additional things need to be considered for this usage to become
a multihoming solution?

Yoshihiro Ohba