[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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