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

[Joe Pickert]

There are variations on mobile ip designed to avoid the triangular routing
issue (dynamic mobile ip for instance), and I am not really suggesting
this might be the best mechanism to employ; just one that might be
leveraged more or less off-the-shelf to suit your purposes.

Joe

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, David Young wrote:

> Mobile IP is something for us to look at, but I think that for the amount
> of effort it would take to deploy, it might not add a lot of value.
> I am concerned about the overhead of "triangle routing."  David Chiluk,
> one of Ralph Johnson's students, astutely observed that on the assymetric
> net connections that we can count on, triangle routing may not only be
> wasteful, but practically unusable!
> 
> [BTW, I think that with Mobile IPv6, triangle routing can be avoided.
> I think that it has to do w/ identifying TCP sessions using the (EUI64,
> port, EUI64, port) tuple instead of the (IPv6, port, IPv6, port) tuple.]
> 
> Dave
> 
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