Hi, Marc,
Normally, host vendors normally really do not like to open this interface,
but anyhow it is more solution oriented, let's discuss it after.
-Hui
2009/4/23 Marc Blanchet <marc(_dot_)blanchet(_at_)viagenie(_dot_)ca>:
Christian's suggestion is one way. not sure it is complete.
but I don't agree with you (Deng): i.e. I think this suggestion is in
scope of MIF wg. Maybe the outcome of the wg is a best practice document
that tells application developers how to write "good" applications in
context of MIF, where one practice is what Christian wrote, for example.
Marc.
Hui Deng a écrit :
This type of implementation is not transparent to application, kind of
binding everything together, what mif is trying to do is to avoid it.
thanks
-Hui
2009/4/23 Christian Huitema <huitema(_at_)windows(_dot_)microsoft(_dot_)com>:
(2) There is no way that these decisions can be made solely at the
transport or application layer, because source (and to a lesser degree
destination) address selection is tightly tied to the first-hop
forwarding decision. The outbound interface, source address and default
router all have to be selected in a coordinate process, to avoid sending
traffic that will be discarded on the outbound path, due to router
filters.
Actually, applications can to do that today, using the socket API, if the
stack implements the "strong host" model. The application just needs to
bind the socket to a specific IP address. Doing that ensures that packets
sourced by the application will use the specified address, will go out
through the interface corresponding to that address, and will use the
default gateway associated with that interface.
-- Christian Huitema
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