The Shim6 Architecture for IPv6 Multihoming Articles uri icon

publication date

  • September 2010

start page

  • 152

end page

  • 157

issue

  • 9

volume

  • 48

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0163-6804

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1558-1896

abstract

  • The Shim6 architecture enables IPv6 multihoming without compromising the scalability of the global routing system by using provider aggregatable addresses. To do so, hosts use different addresses as locators for data
    packet transmission, but present the same source and destination
    identifier pair to transport and upper layers. The components of this
    architecture are the Shim6 entity, which maps and translates upper-layer
    identifiers and locators for remote hosts; the Shim6 protocol, which
    exchanges mapping information between two hosts that communicate; and
    the REAP protocol, which monitors the existing unidirectional paths and
    finds new valid locator combinations in case of failure. To protect
    against new vulnerabilities this architecture may introduce compared to
    IPv6, Shim6 hosts use either cryptographically generated addresses or
    hash-based addresses.