Hi Yoav,

I am sorry I was unclear.

I wasn't just talking about IP Routing, but also Application level Routing
(ALTO). As an example I know ALTO is used in content delivery to get the
content from the best content server (best is based on numerous factors -
like latency, bandwidth, Autonomous System etc). In my view the scenarios
we talk about a host looking for the closest gateway are similar.

I will add it to the document. As a solution we could look at ALTO as an
option for the same.

Thanks,
Vishwas

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Yoav Nir <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Vishwas
>
> Especially for clients, routing doesn't always help. A lot of those
> corporate networks use non-routable IP addresses. Of course you can use
> routing protocols once the client has connected to a gateway, but routing
> protocols don't help you choose the right gateway to reach 192.168.5.82.
>
> Even with routable addresses, routing tables and routing protocols pretty
> much give you only the next hop at layer 3. They don't help you find the
> next VPN hop - an IKE/IPsec endpoint.
>
> It is possible to connect to some (maybe pre-configured) gateway, and then
> run (modified?) routing protocols over the tunnel and learn about more
> gateways through them. But this is getting deeply into the solution space.
>
> Yoav
>
> On May 22, 2012, at 3:14 AM, Vishwas Manral wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I have been trying to understand the use case for End-point to Gateway
> use case as written in the current draft.
> >
> > Finding the closes gateway, seems to be rightly routing or ALTO
> (Application Level Transport Optimization) problem, rather than an IPsec
> one. Am I missing the point altogether?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vishwas
>
>
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