Comment 6 for bug 619332

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René Hummen (rene-hummen) wrote : Re: Fall-back mechanism failure

I would remove broadcasting for 3 reasons:

1) Broadcasting I1s is not specified and thus only supported by HIPL. As such there's no interoperability with other implementations, which could lead to situations where HIPL <-> HIPL just works, whereas combinations don't. This can also be confusing for beginners in a heterogenous scenario.

2) Broadcasts are not routed beyond local network boundaries. Hence, it only provide a failover mechanism for very simple network topologies.

3) Instead of trying to broadcast, we should give an explanation why the connection could not be established. A reference to a FAQ (that we would need in such a case) would be a nice starting point for beginners to track down their problem. I.e. "No HIT to IP mapping found for the requested connection. Please refer to FAQ #12345 for further information."