On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
On Dec 29, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Tony Finch wrote:
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Noel Chiappa wrote:
I have been thinking this for some time too, and it's especially
true/clear when the multi-homing in question is site multi-homing,
and not host-multihoming (which is much rarer, is my impression).
Most networkable consumer electronics ships with at least two network
interfaces. Host multihoming is only rare because it doesn't work.
Why do you say it doesn't work ?
The kind of multihoming I am talking about is where you are using multiple
links for redundncy or resilience - i.e. the same reasons for site
multihoming. I did not mean other kinds of multihoming, such as multiple
addresses on the same link (which I don't think should be called
multihoming) nor links which connect to different networks - which
includes VPNs and gateways/routers. (The site-level equivalent of the
latter is private peering.)
The kind of multihoming I mean is the kind that trivially supports
mobility as a degenerate case, since mobility is just repeated failover.
Tony.
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