Re: [shim6] AD review of draft-ietf-shim6-multihome-shim-api

Miika Komu <mkomu@cs.hut.fi> Thu, 14 October 2010 20:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [shim6] AD review of draft-ietf-shim6-multihome-shim-api
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Hi,

>> The paper does point out a use case for sending data to a previously
>> unknown locator-- however, it seems to be slightly different than the
>> use case here. In the paper, the node learns of the address change and
>> it seems that the HIP daemon sends an Echo request-- I take this to
>> mean that the HIP daemon does this proactively. Here, we are talking
>> about applications triggering this directly and using this API to do
>> so since they may have learned of the address out of band?
>
> I wonder how the kernel does not know about the peer locator (IP
> address) but the application does. You mentioned that application could
> know the address out-of-band, but how? Do you have good examples?

yes, as I explained earlier:

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/shim6/current/msg02203.html