shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

Sat Oct 15 03:50:26 UTC 2005

On Oct 14, 2005, at 3:33 PM, william(at)elan.net wrote:

> No. The kicker is that the applications needs no such smarts and
> shim6 will take care of this for all applications on the system on
> the network level.

Not directly aimed at William: As others have said before (and I  
finally listened) PLEASE take this discussion to the shim6 list.

However, I'm still at a loss as to how the shim on the end node is  
going to know about the operational policy, cost implications and  
site level load balancing requirements to do this _correctly_.

I'm also undecided about how I feel about the extra packets caused by  
the (I forget the official term) discovery packets for shim6 for an  
end site with say a hundred machines each with thousands of short  
lived TCP sessions.