Re: Extending shim6 to use multiple locator pairs simultaneously

[Scott Leibrand <sleibrand@internap.com>]

On 03/21/06 at 11:25am -0500, Scott Leibrand <sleibrand@internap.com> wrote:

> On 03/21/06 at 10:08am -0600, marcelo bagnulo braun <marcelo@it.uc3m.es> wrote:
>
> > El 20/03/2006, a las 22:51, Scott Leibrand escribió:
>
> > i guess that we need to understand the impact of this in the shim6 base
> > protocol and the failure detection mechanism, since both of them are
> > currently designed to use a single locator pair to exchange traffic.
> > I don't think that there would be much trouble with supporting this,
> > though
>
> Yes, definitely.  I've read the I-D's, but I should probably re-read them
> with this in mind and see if I can better understand the impact...

Marcelo,

Would the impact on the failure detection mechanism be eliminated by
having TCP initiate a new forked context for each additional path it
wanted to use?  That way, each context would consider only a single path
as "active" at any one time.  Upon my initial re-read of
draft-ietf-shim6-reach-detect-01.txt, that seems it would be sufficient,
but you'd likely know better than I if there are any other issues to worry
about...

Thanks,
Scott