Re: Host-based may be the way to go, but network controls areneccessary

["Michael H. Lambert" <lambert@psc.edu>]

> One could naively make the host query a site-wide server for policy decisions
> e.g. each time the host needs to choose source and destination addresses
> for a connection. That would have performance implications.

Is this approach made more attractive with 1) cacheing and 2) a hierarchy
of such servers at the site?  There is still overhead, but is it any more
than that associated with, say, joining a multicast group or setting up an
SVC?

Michael

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