On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, grenville armitage wrote: > Pekka Savola wrote: > [..] > > Moreover, we work on an IP layer. We enable IP layer to be able to handle > > our tasks. If there is some problem why we cannot just use different IP > > subnets between the two (or multiple) end-points, we need to fix that > > problem, not burrow even further down the ISO layers. > > Oh. A layering purist. I knew something didn't seem quite right. > > And "just use different IP subnets" would solve mobile IP?
No; the primary goal of Mobile IP to provide connection survability. Unchanging IP address is just a means to get that. > gja (who should probably be disbarred for having once run IP over ATM > over UDP/IP between New Jersey and Georgia because, well, there > just wasn't a 'real' ATM link at the time and moving ATM cells > was my task...) > -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
