> I have never understood the emphasis on helping local long-lived > connections survive renumbering. There are a plethora of other > events that can cause a long-lived connection to drop, so applications > already have to be written to re-establish their long-lived connections > if they go away.
it depends on how often you think renumbering will be necessary relative to those other events. with backup power and reasonable operating systems, there's no reason to not expect connections to stay up (on average) for several weeks or even months. at present few applications are capable of recovering from address changes. the ones that are tend to be those that don't expect to connect for a long time anyway and those that interact directly with a human user who can initiate recovery. Keith -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
