Liyizhou <liyiz...@huawei.com> wrote:
> A campus network may contain the different types of equipment, L2
> switches,
unmanaged L2 switches?
Or managed L2 switches with L3 addresses for their control plane?
> L3 routers, hybrid L2/L3 switches. To make things easy, it is
> quite common that all the nodes are enrolled as layer 2 to form a layer
> 2 topology.
Yes. It's a regular disaster when loops form and the STP turns off the wrong
port, and then the network breaks.
> Then a collection of the physical connection/topology would
> be required to check to see if the cabling is correctly made.
SNMP/YANG collection of LLDP adjacency data would seem to be the correct
process here.
> That is
> to say, assuming using link-local unicast and multicast address to
> reach each L2 port brings extra requirements to L2 devices as L2 ports
> may never use those IP addresses for their real data plane forwarding.
That seems like the wrong way to do things.
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Michael Richardson <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca> . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide
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