Sebastien Roy wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
>> I understand that the original customer for this never used it and that
>> parts of Solaris' Mobile IP support are broken. But, are there really
>> no real or potential users of / uses for mobile IP in Solaris?
>
> I can get you in touch with the people involved with scoping out this
> technology area from the business side if you want to discuss the
> business related conclusions that they reached. In short, a decision
> has been made to remove this from Solaris.
More to the point, I think there are no real users of the _current_
implementation, and that there are also no potential users of the
_current_ implementation in Solaris.
If a business case arises requiring a working implementation, then we
should look at that... the code that we currently have may be helpful at
that time, but it will not be sufficient.
>
>>
>> What about other OSes?
>
> Some other OSes have Mobile IP implementations. I don't see that as
> being related to Solaris architecture.
Additionally, it appears that the demand is likely to be the greatest
for Mobile IPv6, which we have never had. Apparently certain telcos and
large government projects require a functional mobile IPv6
infrastructure. Roland had much to say here about the German national
healthcare system, and UMTS.
-- Garrett
