RE: The state of IPv6 multihoming development

["Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>]

> Michael Lambert wrote:
> Can these boxes (which in essence are multihoming policy
> servers) exist only at the edge of the enterprise network,

Yes.

> or do they have to live at each level of the internal
> routing hierarchy?

No.

> A host with interfaces on multiple subnets has to make the
> same decisions about address selection when reaching an
> internal destination as when reaching an external one.

That's the point, precisely: These boxes would enable hosts on the
internal network to have only one address.
 

> I guess the implication is that a solution which is
> routing-protocol agnostic is more scalable than one
> which isn't.

At the host level, definitely. At the router level, there is a fine line
between agnosticism and awareness, as there are tremendous advantages
for the box that makes the multihoming decisions to know the network
topology.

Michel.