Hello Carsten: The 6LR, or 6LBR, are logical functions. A L3-switch is a box that has its differences with a router.
All the best, Pascal > -----Original Message----- > From: Carsten Bormann <[email protected]> > Sent: lundi 8 juillet 2019 14:51 > To: Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <[email protected]> > Cc: Mark Smith <[email protected]>; Michael Richardson > <[email protected]>; 6man <[email protected]>; V6 Ops List > <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [6lo] Advocating a generalization of RFC8505 to non-6lo LANs > > On Jul 8, 2019, at 14:41, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> What sort of device is a "L3AP"? In RFC 8200 we don't have that sort > >> of device defined, we just have links, hosts, routers and nodes (IPv6 host > >> or > router). > > > > Like a L3-switch but wireless. An AP is a bridge that is proactively > programmed on the wireless side with the association process, as opposed to > a learning (transparent) bridge that requires the broadcast. RFC 6775 / 8505 > is > the same thing at L3. If you add L3 features like an SVI to the AP, and L3 > functions in there like RFC8505, routing, and/or ND proxy, then you have an > L3-AP. > > Hi Pascal, > > out there again confusing everyone with needlessly invented terminology? :-) > > These things are called 6LRs in RFC 6775/8505, for people who want to look > up what they do (or do you mean 6LBRs?). > > Grüße, Carsten _______________________________________________ 6lo mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lo
