Re: Source address selection in IPv6 multihomed multi-addressed sites

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

Christian,

I'm sorry to have over-interpreted what you said. I should probably
have written "...should be handled by default below the socket API."

   Brian

Christian Huitema wrote:
> 
> I certainly did not say that the choice should be handled "by default in the IP layer". I said that it is typically handled by the TCP-IP stack, after the application binds to ANY. But TCP-IP stack != IP layer. The IP layer only starts operating when both source and destination have been chosen..
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: owner-multi6@ops.ietf.org on behalf of Brian E Carpenter
> Sent: Thu 7/17/2003 2:22 AM
> To: multi6@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Source address selection in IPv6 multihomed multi-addressed sites
> 
> Kenji Ohira wrote:
> ...
> > First of all, I think that source address selection should be made by each
> > application/transport layer.
> 
> As I and Keith Moore and Christian Huitema have been trying to say,
> this is not realistic as a general case. In some special cases we can
> expect upper layers to be able to do this, but it has to be handled
> by default in the IP layer.
> 
>    Brian