Re: draft-ietf-multi6-multihoming-requirements-06.txt

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On woensdag, jun 11, 2003, at 21:53 Europe/Amsterdam, Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> > Let's see: load balancing is not a realistic requirement.  For the
> > architecture to be automatic, we have to be dynamic and we've
> > proven that we don't know how to do that yet.  Even to give people
> > some tools seems to lead to abuse.  Who controls the balancing?
> > The source?  The destination?  Don't say 'both'.  No packet can
> > serve two masters.
> 
> No load balancing whatsoever means having a primary connection and a 
> backup. For most multihomers paying for bandwidth you only get to use 
> less than 1% of the time is a non-starter.

The real question was about *controlled, fine-grained* load balancing.  
That's entirely different than e.g. advertising identical prefix to two
ISP's in an identical fashion.

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