Re: [MEXT] draft-arkko-mext-rfc3775-altcoa-check-00.txt

[Sri Gundavelli <sgundave at cisco.com>]

Hi Jari,

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Jari Arkko wrote:

> Premec, Sri,
>
> Distributed MN or MAG implementations might indeed have a need to use
> multiple source addresses. Its not clear to me though that there are
> cases where you simply cannot use one source address and care-of address
> consistently. E.g., can a control plane blade send a packet with a
> source address that belongs to a data plane blade? Input from
> implementors sought on this.
>

In the blade architecture systems, probably this is common as 
Premec pointed out. I do not think, using the source of the data plane
in the control packets will help, as the BA will not come back to
the control endpoint. All that will be there in the data card will
be some routing state.


> Of course, if all else fails you can configure this check off.


Sure


Sri

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