What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

Tue Oct 25 03:08:54 UTC 2005

> ... shim6 doesn't fit into the definition does it?  Its seems to be a
> question of multihomed networks Vs. multihomed hosts (although the
> effect may be the same at the end of the day).
> 
> 
Yes... The network is still multihomed, but, instead of using routing to
handle the source/dest addr. selection, it is managed at each end host
independent of the routers.  The routers function sort of like the
network is single homed.  It's very convoluted.


Owen


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