Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpointid seperation)

[Owen DeLong]

I believe RFC1122 was written in the days when there was a one-to-one
correlation
between IP addresses and interfaces, and, you couldn't have one machine with
multiple addresses on the same network.  Obviously, also, we are talking
about
network multihoming, not host multihoming in a NANOG context.  It is hard
to perceive a situation where Host Multihoming would require coordination.

Owen


--On October 24, 2005 1:31:17 PM -0700 Crist Clark
<crist.clark@globalstar.com> wrote:

> 
> Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>> Other people use this term in very different ways. To some people
>>> it means using having multiple IP addresses bound to a single
>>> network interface. To others it means multiple websites on one
>>> server.
>> 
>> 
>> That is virtual hosting in a NANOG context.  Some undereducated MCSEs 
>> might call it multihoming, but let's not endorse that here.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is a common and "standards blessed" way to refer to
> any host with multiple interfaces/addresses (real or virtual). For
> example,
> from the "Terminology" section, 1.1.3, of RFC1122, "Requirements for
> Internet Hosts -- Communication Layers," says,
> 
>           Multihomed
>                A host is said to be multihomed if it has multiple IP
>                addresses.  For a discussion of multihoming, see Section
>                3.3.4 below.
> 
> -- 
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