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Multihoming is one of the key features of most protocols invented after tcp (sctp, QUIC, mptcp) and for good reason, it is so so useful in many scenarios.
by touisteur 4y ago
Multihoming is one of the key features of most protocols invented after tcp (sctp, QUIC, mptcp) and for good reason, it is so so useful in many scenarios.
- convolvatron 4y agoI know its heresy to consider. but given the place where we ended up, maybe host addresses make more sense than interface addresses (ignoring the effect that would have on routing table aggregation)
- touisteur 4y agoI guess it all depends on your constraints. If you can use a message bus or high-level abstractions, like kafka, go for it. But for extremely low latency or very constrained environments, if you need to switch billions packets per second, it's hard to beat the simplicity and efficiency of arp+ip ...