On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: Hi,
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:11:55PM +0100, Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org> wrote a message of 47 lines which said:IMHO HIP (RFC4423) is that exact identity layerI feel the same way but it does not seem that HIP interests many people?
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The big problem though is that actually getting programs to use this is cumbersome, simply because a lot of programmers don't know about it.Via draft-ietf-hip-native-api? How many implementation? How could I use it on a machine which has no HIP in its kernel?
Yes, the native API is an explicit way of using HIP: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-hip-native-api-04.txt Fortunately, also legacy applications can also use HIP: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-hip-applications-02.txtWhile waiting for changes to libc, the DNS interaction can be accomplished by running a DNS proxy in the localhost that can do the HIP magic. The kernel support for the new beet mode is not mandatory because it can be implemented in userspace using tun/tap devices like OpenHIP does it already. Our project (InfraHIP) has contributed already the kernel patches to the Linux kernel and half of them have been accepted.
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