Re: GSE IDs [Re: IETF multihoming powder: just add IPv6 and stir]

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> 
> On woensdag, mei 7, 2003, at 11:08 Europe/Amsterdam, Brian E Carpenter
> wrote:
> 
> >> Or you simply rewrite the first 48 bits when the packet traverses the
> >> border into the destination site with the same value the packet had
> >> prior to traversing the border of the source site.
> 
> > This was not part of any GSE proposal I ever saw,
> 
> True enough, but I think there was reasonable consensus that GSE as-is
> wouldn't be very useful as it requires changes to too many things and
> doesn't implement important multihoming functionality such as failover.
> We need to come up with some new names though, to avoid confusion.
> 
> > and it involves stateful distribution of mapping information. A very
> > different beast from GSE, and it sets off my stateful=bad alarm.
> 
> Actually this wouldn't be a problem at all since we have to keep this
> exact same state anyway in order to map the other way around for
> sending packets back.

Again, not in GSE as I understand it. In MHAP or map-and-encap, yes.

   Brian