Re: Outbound interface as a selector?

Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> Mon, 18 October 1999 00:18 UTC

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On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Dan McDonald wrote:
> ...The only way I can think of is to use the outgoing interface as a
> selector for outbound d-grams (and for that matter, inbound d-grams too).

Note that RFC 2401 (etc.) says in about so many words that there is, at
least conceptually, a separate SPD for each interface.  That is, this
functionality is already there, although not advertised exactly that way. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net
                                                     (henry@zoo.toronto.edu)

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