RE: The state of IPv6 multihoming development

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Hesham Soliman (EAB) wrote:

>   > Also note that
>   > current mobility will not support multihoming in any way,
>   > it would just
>   > be a starting point and we can borrow the header.

> => Current MIPv6 mechanisms _will_ support a multihomed/
> multiaddressed hosts. However, they will not give you a
> seamless switch from one path to another when one of the
> paths fail.

So what's the use then? We don't multihome because we like having many
addresses, but to survive failures.

> The host will somehow need to be explicitly
> notified that it should choose a new CoA. So this will
> interrupt (but need not break) ongoing connections.

How does a mobile host survive the home agent becoming unreachable?