[ih] History question

[John Day]

Was there any discussion multihoming as a general problem before 81-82?

> On Sep 7, 2026, at 17:03, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> RFC 791, page 7 (September 1981):
> 
>   "Care must be taken in mapping internet addresses to local net
>    addresses; a single physical host must be able to act as if it were
>    several distinct hosts to the extent of using several distinct
>    internet addresses.  Some hosts will also have several physical
>    interfaces (multi-homing)."
> 
> That text was also in RFC 760, a.k.a. IEN 128, and in IEN 111 (August 1979). It was completely absent in IEN 28 (February 1978). So I guess the answer to John is "between February 1978 and August 1979."
> 
> Regards/Ngā mihi
>   Brian Carpenter
> 
> On 08-Sep-26 05:38, John Day via Internet-history wrote:
>> When and who brought the multihoming question to general discussion?
>> When was it first recognized as an issue, even if there was no real discussion about a solution?
>> Take care,
>> John Day
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