Re: addition of TLV to locator ID or locator ID set

[Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, marcelo bagnulo braun wrote:

> I think that it is important to distinguish the two cases that Erik presented 
> in a mail earlier:

> are we considering the case of a proxy for legacy hosts or are we supposing 
> that hosts within the multihomed site support the shim functionality and that 
> the proxy is simply performing source address /prefix selection for that 
> hosts?

I've been considering the case where hosts where not enabling their 
shims so far.

> These are two very different problems imho the second is quite easy 
> imho but the second is quite hard and this is where the issues of 
> dhcp, coordination, single point of failure in the proxy becomes an 
> issue.

Yes, the second is trickier. I hadn't considered the second case, 
thanks for making it clear Erik was. ;)

To deal with the second case depends on how a shim-aware host decides 
to enable shim, I would guess.

The simplest way possibly would be to have a way to suppress end-host 
shim at a site which had shim proxies available.

> regards, marcelo

regards,
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