On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:20:09PM +0000, Daniel O'Neill wrote: > well, ARPs still take up bandwidth, and I'm not sure the scale you're talking > about. I would recommend a tiered structure of gateways, each handling, say, > 80bits worth of hosts or whichever you prefer, then route the gateways > through each other. This also makes it easier for protocols such as SMB and > NMB to function correctly, if they ever function ever again. Also, this > allows you to create scopes for any incurred broadcasts you wish to send out: >
I was under the impression that IPv6 did not rely on ARP packets. That it used Neighbourhood Discovery instead. Hence it did not rely on anything below OSI Layer 3 for functionality, apart from the ability to broadcast messages. Am I incorrect, or where you making ARP synonymous with ND? Geoff Crompton
