RE: The state of IPv6 multihoming development

["Craig A. Huegen" <chuegen@cisco.com>]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Tony Li wrote:

> |   host; however, we still run into the support issues associated with
> |   applying and maintaining several, multi-PA prefixes to tens
> |   of thousands
> |   of subnets.
>
> Would you feel this way if you could simply maintain the prefixes
> in the border gateway?

No.  The open concern then becomes that of applications that carry
addresses in the payload -- would border routers require a knowledge base
of applications to translate a la IPv4 NAT?

/cah

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