> The conflict resolution protocol is just a way of letting the user know > that a particular name is ambiguous in the domain that is currently > reachable. One of the users will then have to pick another name and > announce it to any other users who knew about the old name and were > using it. Having the conlict resolution protocol remove a name or change > it to something else will not remove the confusion, since the old name > will still be lodged into the minds of the people who need it. > > Frankly, I don't see that having multiple intefaces makes all that much > difference.
The difference is that the names need to be unique not only on one link, but across all interfaces connected to the multihomed host. How would you expect conflict resolution to handle that? Erik -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
