diff --git a/6. Management and Operations/Multihoming.md b/6. Management and Operations/Multihoming.md index a6eeb40..931ec9a 100644 --- a/6. Management and Operations/Multihoming.md +++ b/6. Management and Operations/Multihoming.md @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ usually to provide redundancy in case of failures. The phrase the problems in achieving MHMP using multiple address prefixes. This section discusses practical techniques for site multihoming. +Domestic or small office installations are out of scope for this topic. They +will rarely be connected permanently to more than one ISP, and therefore cannot +expect smooth failover. + Note that the term "multihoming" is sometimes used to describe a configuration _inside_ a site network where a node is connected to more than one internal router to provide redundancy. That complicates site @@ -133,10 +137,16 @@ not share all the disadvantages of IPv4 NAT. As discussed in RFC 6296, Of course, NPTv6 retains some of the disadvantages of NAT: all of the problems that directly follow from having different IP addresses at the -two ends of a connection. Any site running NPTv6 must either deal with -these problems, or avoid any affected applications. Section 5 of -[RFC6296](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6296) discusses this in -detail. +two ends of a connection. Section 5 of +[RFC6296](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6296) discusses this. +Any site running NPTv6 must either deal with +these problems, or avoid any affected applications. In particular, +SIP (Session Initiation Protocol for IP telephony) will not work without +the support of a proxy mechanism +\[[RFC6314](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6314)] +as well as provision for IPv6/IPv4 coexistence +\[[RFC6157](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6157)]. +This limits the applicability of NPTv6. ### Transport layer solutions