> >>> "Bill" == Bill Sommerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bill> For what it's worth, I've occasionally heard > the term used > Bill> in an application-layer context to refer to > hosts having > Bill> multiple IP addresses rather than/in addition > to multiple > Bill> interfaces. > > This just looks like the degenerate case -- multiple > addresses, > multiple interfaces, except that each of the multiple > interfaces > happen to be the same. It seems to me that the network > layer code > should treat both cases identically. Does this make sense?
=> I don't think so. There is a difference in existing standards (2461) and implementations between the 2 cases. A multiaddressed node with a single interface assumes that any address can be used as a source address with any default router. This is clearly not a good assumption for multi-interfaced (multihomed) nodes Hesham -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
