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RE: Heartbeats draft (fwd)
Why do we have to start with the premise that we definitely need
Heartbeats?
I think, everybody is aware of atleast one implementation that elegantly
provides high availability, in the current framework of IKE and IPSec. So,
I feel that high availability can be acheived in an efficient way if we do
it in an implementation specific way.
-chinna
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Paul Koning wrote:
> Chinna,
>
> I would tend to agree with Chris. We have seen the sort of problems
> he mentioned in the real world. In addition, less likely to be a
> problem but still significant is the issue of self-stabilization. I
> know that not all protocols include this as an issue, but I have
> learned to treat it as a mandatory property.
>
> If you want to argue against the proposed mechanism, you might find it
> easier to convince people if you put forth an alternate proposal (with
> details of algorithms and protocols) that achieves the same ends with
> more efficiency. You mention, for example, that the SA database out
> of sync problem is easy to solve by other ways, but the approach you
> refer to in passing is one that has been considered before and found
> risky and/or unworkable. If you believe something has been
> overlooked, please fill in the details.
>
> paul
>
>
>
chinna narasimha reddy pellacuru
s/w engineer
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