[Cu-wireless] Re: phase iii network: v4/v6 addressing & Internet connectivity

[Joe Pickert]

The first thing that springs to mind is mobile ip. I am pretty sure there
is at least one open source implementation available. If you consider the
gateway that the connection is currently established on as the "home
address", and the gateway with better metrics that you are transferring to
the "attachment point", then mobile ip seems to fit the bill. Granted, you
still have a less than optimal path for the connection overall (since
mobile ip is basically just redirection). However, at least more of the
traffic can be through paths off-cloud, which are presumably better, and
all on-cloud traffic can be using the best available paths. You also have
the nice benefit of all connections being totally mobile within the cloud.
Of course this assumes your software in managing the cloud side of all
gateways. Is this an incorrect assumption (or perhaps an undesirable one)?

Joe

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, David Young wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:35:32AM -0600, Joe Pickert wrote:
> > 
> > Any reason that you don't want to use a connection migration mechanism?  
> > Given the very long lived sessions that will be happening for multimedia
> > and other applications, it seems you might be maintaining connections
> > through routes already deemed suboptimal for very long periods of time.
> 
> Do you have a particular mechanism in mind?  I don't think we can provide
> connection migration without the help of our Internet provider(s).
> 
> Dave
> 
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