Re: failure detection

[Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Paul Jakma wrote:

> 	- some kind of independent path-probing software that adjusts
> 	  routing as required
> 	  (and some OSes already have this functionality)

> - Shim6 does not need this complexity, it would be redundant and
>  counter-productive (particularly for sites that got route
>  availability information from their ISP)

Note that the latter does not imply that the former functionality 
could not be included as part of (or alongside) a shim6 
implementation - just that I don't think it's at all useful to go 
into all the complexity of specifying the former as part of shim6. 
Let it be an implementation detail (or not).

regards,
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Paul Jakma	paul@clubi.ie	paul@jakma.org	Key ID: 64A2FF6A
Fortune:
if (user_specified)
    /* Didn't work, but the user is convinced this is the
     * place. */
        linux-2.4.0-test2/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c