[rrg] Why a host-based solution does not necessarily add signalling load

[David Conrad]

Paul,

On Jan 20, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, David Conrad wrote:
>> On Jan 20, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Paul Jakma wrote:
>>>> a host-based model causes more signalling/reachability testing  
>>>> traffic than the tunnel-router-based one.
>>> What's the basis for thinking this, and are there any good studies/ 
>>> data to back it up?
>> Well, for one thing, a tunnel-router-based solution would typically  
>> cover some number of hosts.
> I assumed there was an implied ", to a significant enough extent for  
> it to matter" at the end of the sentence I quoted.

What meets your requirement of enough "to matter"?  Depending on  
deployment scenario, a tunnel-router-based solution could cover  
thousands of hosts or more.  Is that enough to matter?

Regards,
-drc