Hi Fred, That's interesting. There has been some talk about multiple ISATAP site routers, and scalability. Can you comment on how ISATAP performed in this network of thousands of (mobile) hosts? (I assume you meant hundreds or thousands, not hundreds of thousands)
Tim On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:08:41AM -0800, Fred L. Templin wrote: > FWIW, > > This study, along with others in the US Army CECOM division, > produced the transition mechansim now known as ISATAP. > > Fred Templin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fred L. Templin wrote: > >So much traffic has flown by on this subject that my head is still > >spinning. > >But, let me give one example in which the use of site-locals on globally > >connected networks might be useful. > > > >While at SRI International, I had the privilege of participating in a > >study of > >autonomous teams of unmanned vehciles with the Office of Naval Research. > >Such > >teams may consist of hundreds/thousands of mobile vehicles that travel > >together > >in a more-or-less coordinated fashion. Communications are nicely modeled by > >Mobile Ad-hoc Networking, as in the IETF MANET WG. Very large teams may be > >organized into "clusters" based on geography, commonalities of interest, > >etc. Finally, the team as a whole is only intermittently connected to the > >global Internet - perhaps with long periods of disconnected operation. > > > >When the team is out of contact with the global Internet, site-locals > >can provide > >a nice means to facilitate intra-cluster and inter-cluster > >communcations. When the > >team comes in contact with an access router(s) to the the global > >Internet, the global > >prefixes can be disemminated to team members that need global access. > >But since the > >team is mobile, global access may be intermittent, with new global > >prefixes learned > >as different access routers are encountered. > > > >So it seems tome that site-locals can provide a useful mechanism for > >large mobile > >networks with intermittent global connectivity. > > > >Fred Templin > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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] > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
