IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses
Matthew Kaufman
matthew at matthew.at
Thu Oct 21 02:45:43 UTC 2010
On 10/20/2010 7:15 PM, James Hess wrote:
>
> Perhaps one day, there will be a truly reliable transport protocol,
> and an API that allows a bind()
> against multiple IPs and a connect()
> to all a target host's IPs instead of just one, so both hosts can
> learn of each other's IP addresses
> that are offered to be used for that connection, then "multiple PA
> IP addresses"
> would be a technically viable multi-homing strategy.
That protocol already exists and is installed on almost every personal
computer in the world... but there's alas there's still a lot of TCP out
there.
By the way, the problems you listed are some, but not all, of the
reasons why it isn't really a viable multi-homing strategy... but yours
also include some of the reasons why having ULA + globally-routed space
both active would be a problem for many applications.
Matthew Kaufman
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