Re: LIN6 i-d for multihoming and mobility support

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>]

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On 2004-01-05, at 07.00, Ayyasamy, Senthilkumar (UMKC-Student) wrote:

>> Finally, i really don't understand why the mapping agent is needed in 
>> the
>> multi-homed environment. I mean, i do understand that the MA is 
>> needed for
>> mobility, but i think it is not needed for multihoming. In the noid
>> proposal, the mechanism is similar (i think) but only the dns is 
>> used. This
>> is good because you don't add an additional critical device and you 
>> reduce
>> the packet exchanges (you don't have to query the MA)
>
> true. But, noid assumes that locator set does not change frequently. 
> So, DNS
> is a better canditate. For frequent locator updates, we need something 
> other
> than DNS.  But, locator changes will be frequent in a simultaneous 
> site multi
> home & mobility/ad-hoc environment.

But that is not necessarily a problem for a multihoming solution. There 
might be a race-condition between a locator change change for 
multihoming and one for mobility, but that is a address selection/host 
problem. At least IMHO.

- - kurtis -

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