Christian's suggestion is one way. not sure it is complete. but I don't agree with you (Deng): i.e. I think this suggestion is in scope of MIF wg. Maybe the outcome of the wg is a best practice document that tells application developers how to write "good" applications in context of MIF, where one practice is what Christian wrote, for example.
Marc. Hui Deng a écrit : > This type of implementation is not transparent to application, kind of > binding everything together, what mif is trying to do is to avoid it. > > thanks > > -Hui > > > 2009/4/23 Christian Huitema <huit...@windows.microsoft.com>: >>> (2) There is no way that these decisions can be made solely at the >>> transport or application layer, because source (and to a lesser degree >>> destination) address selection is tightly tied to the first-hop >>> forwarding decision. The outbound interface, source address and default >>> router all have to be selected in a coordinate process, to avoid sending >>> traffic that will be discarded on the outbound path, due to router >>> filters. >> Actually, applications can to do that today, using the socket API, if the >> stack implements the "strong host" model. The application just needs to bind >> the socket to a specific IP address. Doing that ensures that packets sourced >> by the application will use the specified address, will go out through the >> interface corresponding to that address, and will use the default gateway >> associated with that interface. >> >> -- Christian Huitema >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ietf mailing list >> Ietf@ietf.org >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >> > _______________________________________________ > mif mailing list > m...@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mif -- ========= IPv6 book: Migrating to IPv6, Wiley. http://www.ipv6book.ca Stun/Turn server for VoIP NAT-FW traversal: http://numb.viagenie.ca DTN news service: http://reeves.viagenie.ca _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
