At 22:06 today, Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote:
> I am in a very preliminary phase, trying to learn how to implement
> routing and bridging under Linux. In order for the routing protocol to
> have proper topology view, it somehow needs to assign a unique IP on all
> interfaces and for bridging and those interfaces needs to be in the same
> bridge.
By my understanding (and it's a while since I read that paper so I might be
wrong) you don't need unique IP addresses on all interfaces; everything uses
MAC addresses. To quote section 4.2 of the draft:
o it runs directly over Layer 2, so therefore may be run with zero
configuration (no IP addresses need to be assigned)
--
Malcolm Scott
Research Assistant
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
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