Re: [homenet] sorting out the right ipv6 addr to choose and name in a source specific world

2014-12-19 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Sounds interesting. In the ideal world, that would be a pluggable policy algorithm. Lowest RTT may not always be the best choice. It is, in our particular context. That's the nice thing about working at the application layer -- you are the application, so you have a pretty good idea of what

Re: [homenet] sorting out the right ipv6 addr to choose and name in a source specific world

2014-12-19 Thread Henning Rogge
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek j...@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr wrote: Sounds interesting. In the ideal world, that would be a pluggable policy algorithm. Lowest RTT may not always be the best choice. It is, in our particular context. That's the nice thing about working at

Re: [homenet] sorting out the right ipv6 addr to choose and name in a source specific world

2014-12-19 Thread Matthieu Boutier
You might also need to combine the features of the gateway with the metric(s) of the path to the gateway. Its not really useful to select a faster gateway if the path towards the gateway goes over a slow wifi link. I do end-to-end measurements in my mosh implementation, so we should not