[e2e] node addresses vs. interface addresses

Joe Touch touch at ISI.EDU
Thu Aug 1 10:15:13 PDT 2002


Christian Huitema wrote:
>>From: Joe Touch [mailto:touch at ISI.EDU] 
...
>>Except again that this can be hidden from the rest of the 
>>network using 
>>tunnels. A host can have a single endpoint address - on an "internal" 
>>virtual interface, used through a set of tunnels, each using outer 
>>addresses based on one of multiple real interfaces.
> 
> 
> You can hide it somewhat, but Noel draw the fundamental tension.
...
> The alternative to loading everybody with the problem is to shift the
> load to the multihomed host and its peers.

Hiding it _does_ shift the load to the multihomed host and its peers. 
See the paper for details.

Joe






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