Re: [homenet] sorting out the right ipv6 addr to choose and name in a source specific world

Henning Rogge <hrogge@gmail.com> Sun, 21 December 2014 19:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] sorting out the right ipv6 addr to choose and name in a source specific world
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Matthieu Boutier
<boutier@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote:
>> You might also need to combine the features of the gateway with the
>> metric(s) of the path to the gateway.
>>
>> Its not really useful to select a faster gateway if the path towards
>> the gateway goes over a slow wifi link.
>
> I do end-to-end measurements in my mosh implementation, so we should
> not have the problem.  The host selects a source address, in fact a
> pair (src, dst), depending on the performances of the whole path
> determined by this pair.

Does this really scale well?

If every application on every attached computer in the Homenet
measures the end-to-end performance through every gateway... that
could be a LOT of overhead for larger Homenet installations.

Henning Rogge