RE: Next question...

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

Tony,

>>> Tony Li wrote:
>>> 2) Put the locators in the border router.  This frees
>>>    the host of the management burden, but makes it
>>>    somewhat harder for a site to provide site-wide
>>>    policy.
  
>> Michel Py wrote:
>> Why would it be harder? For this purpose, I don't see a
>> difference between the choice of the locator to be used
>> and the choice of the site exit link. If the choice of the
>> locator is based on the AS-PATH, turns out to be the same.

> It's harder because as site administrator, I now need to
> communicate policy to each system in the enterprise. That
> can be daunting. Ever manage an enterprise with 2000 hosts
> in it?

2000 hosts: small potatoes. Allow me to rephrase my question: if you put
locators in the border router and they are unknown to the hosts, why
would it be harder? You would not have to communicate policy to the
hosts.

Michel.