Re: [v6ops] CPE Prefix Sub-Delegation on LAN

[Bruce Zamaere <[e-mail]>]

Guillaume,

This is an interesting discussion and I too would very much like to
see more work into this. Our current research is focused on developing
a robust multi-homed residential gateway that can facilitate the
delivery of home-based healthcare services. It would be 'nice' to have
different local subnets for different applications or services in this
case.

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:27 PM, <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Everything else could be solved via configuration of the CPE, and I think
> we expect most of the users with this design to be able to log in to their CPE
> and configure a "cluster" or whatever it should be called. Especially when it
> comes to using this design for multi-homing the end hosts, then it has to be
> solved via configuration because no basic user will try to multi-home.

I don't have a solution up my sleeve but I believe it should be
possible to define mechanisms that would allow even "basic users" to
take advantage of multi-homing. This is an important consideration for
my research. In line with this, I am also interested in supporting
SCTP enabled endpoints. Now I haven't thought about this much, but
would it be possible for a CPE that has received prefixes from
multiple upstream ISPs to allocate IPs from each of these prefixes to
SCTP capable hosts?

regards,

/Bruce.