Hi Michael, Juliusz, & Pascal, Thanks for your thoughts. I understand about the different upstream providers. However, inside the home, if there are multiple paths, I can also picture it being useful to use them (backups to a NAS, multiple video streams, etc).
Whether they are simply equal-cost or unequal but safe to use paths is an interesting detail, but I think the main point is whether parallel paths will be supported. The concerns about wifi links interfering with each other is interesting. I wonder if that is always a local decision for one end of the links or whether a link from A to B and one from C to D would need to be coordinated? I'm tempted to want a nice abstraction layer, but I also sense that it isn't quite that simple. It sounds to me like using multiple paths (ECMP or otherwise) is something that hasn't been clearly nailed down in the requirements? Regards, Alia On Aug 11, 2015 5:54 PM, "Michael Richardson" <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca> wrote: > > I don't think that ECMP is useful/interesting *within* the Homenet. > > It is certainly true that having two DSL links "bonded" is regularly done > (usually using MPPP), but that presents as a single link. Some will want > two > CPE routers for reasons of redundancy on their multi-path uplink. My > opinion > is that we are rapidly getting to "professional managed" networks here, > even > if the professional the ISP or the very sophisticated home-based IT worker. > > Being able to identify backup links and rapidly swing traffic is important, > but I think that all the protocols can do that. > > I think that MPTCP is more likely to bring significant benefit to > applications that need to leverage multiple ISPs. > > -- > Michael Richardson <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works > -= IPv6 IoT consulting =- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > homenet@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet > >
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