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

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Sun, 21 December 2014 12:17 UTC

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From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
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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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Hi,

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:54:54PM +0100, Matthieu Boutier wrote:
> 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.

This is extremely cool (and quite likely one of the reasons why mosh
performs so well under adverse network conditions).

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
-- 
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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