Re: Web Server addresses : Unicast , Multicast , Anycast

2003-03-06 Thread Siva Veerepalli
At 09:03 AM 1/21/2003 +0530, Digambar Rasal wrote: Hi I am developing a Web server , router , load balancers, Gateway and Switch testing software. I have read the RFC reagrding the addressing in IPv6 and I understood that Web servers , routers , load balancers, Gateways and Switches can have

Re: please reply I am posting 3rd time : Web Server addresses : Unicast, Multicast , Anycast

2003-01-23 Thread Brian Haberman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes that is what the spec says, but reality is always somewhat different. There is no technical reason that an anycast address could not be assigned to any group of hosts. The issue that must be dealt with there are technical reasons why anycast addresses can only be

Re: please reply I am posting 3rd time : Web Server addresses : Unicast , Multicast , Anycast

2003-01-22 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi Digamar, Sorry for not replying earlier. I have read the RFC reagrding the addressing in IPv6 and I understood that Web servers , routers , load balancers, Gateways and Switches can have either Unicast or Multicast or Anycast address. Any IPv6 node can have any of these types of

Re: please reply I am posting 3rd time : Web Server addresses : Unicast , Multicast , Anycast

2003-01-22 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Oops... I made a mistake in the response. An anycast address can only be assigned to a router (an IPv6 node that forwards packets), not to a host. So, most Web Servers could not be assigned an anycast address. Sorry, Margaret At 08:28 AM 1/22/2003 -0500, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Hi

RE: please reply I am posting 3rd time : Web Server addresses : Unicast , Multicast , Anycast

2003-01-22 Thread Tony Hain
Margaret Wasserman wrote: Oops... I made a mistake in the response. An anycast address can only be assigned to a router (an IPv6 node that forwards packets), not to a host. So, most Web Servers could not be assigned an anycast address. Yes that is what the spec says, but reality is

Re: please reply I am posting 3rd time : Web Server addresses : Unicast , Multicast , Anycast

2003-01-22 Thread itojun
Yes that is what the spec says, but reality is always somewhat different. There is no technical reason that an anycast address could not be assigned to any group of hosts. The issue that must be dealt with there are technical reasons why anycast addresses can only be assigned to

Re: Web Server addresses : Unicast , Multicast , Anycast

2003-01-20 Thread Digambar Rasal
Hi I am developing a Web server , router , load balancers, Gateway and Switch testing software. I have read the RFC reagrding the addressing in IPv6 and I understood that Web servers , routers , load balancers, Gateways and Switches can have either Unicast or Multicast or Anycast address. I am

Web Server addresses : Unicast , Multicast , Anycast

2003-01-14 Thread Digambar Rasal
Hi I am developing a Web server , router , load balancers, Gateway and Switch testing software. I have read the RFC reagrding the addressing in IPv6 and I understood that Web servers , routers , load balancers, Gateways and Switches can have either Unicast or Multicast or Anycast address. I am