Re: about Wedgelayer 3.5 / Fat IP approaches

[Erik Nordmark <Erik.Nordmark@sun.com>]

> > Example: busy server receives a context from a client with large ID = X
> > and AID=P1 | hash(X)
> > Server later receives a context from a client with large ID = Y
> > and AID=P1 | hash(Y)
> > and the hash values are identical.
> >
> > Even though the multihoming layer can disambiguate the two contexts, it
> > can not handle both at the same time because the ULP can not tell them 
> > apart.
> >
> 
> I think that Tom was considering the case were apps have been upgraded 
> and they are HIP aware (using a new api), so they can actually deal 
> with the full HIT or even directly with the HI, so they can benefit 
> from enhanced security.

But even if the application can do that it doesn't help the TCP from telling
the two peers with the same AID apart.

  Erik