> -----邮件原件----- > 发件人: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 代表 Bengt Ahlgren > 发送时间: 2008年3月6日 19:11 > 收件人: William Herrin > 抄送: Routing Research Group > 主题: Re: [RRG] Are host-stack modifications allowed or disallowed ? > > "William Herrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Loose and strict source routing existed in IPv4 for a reason. There > > were some security issues, some performance issues and the network got > > wider than they could support but they weren't fundamentally a bad > > idea. Indeed, if loose source routing was still valid, our map-encap > > schemes might not need the encap part at all. > > This is IMO an important point. You can get the same function as a > tunnel, but without requiring the other end to decap. In NIIA we call > it routing hint, but it has basically the same function.
With LOOSE source route, we still need encap/decap part and don't need map part in each hop of loose source route hop-list. Regards, Xiaohu XU -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
