Re: WG action: 1 week to discuss LL18: Host

Mika Liljeberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.zeroconf
Message-ID <1062863939.25949.6.camel@hades>
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 18:08, Robert Elz wrote:
> Rather, I think I'd say something like
> 
> 	A multi-homed host needs to select an outgoing interface.
> 	Details of that process are beyond the scope of this specification.
> 	After selecting an interface, the multi-homed host should send
> 	packets involving link-local addresses as specified in this
> 	document, as if the selected interface were the host's only interface.

I agree. In fact, I would like to see something along these lines as
close to the top as possible. The fact that the specification doesn't
properly consider multihoming should be made clear from the beginning.
That should save implementors some considerable anxiety.

	MikaL
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