On Aug 3, 2011, at 21:03 , Robert Cragie wrote: > > L2 bridging is OK if you can do it but not everything looks like Ethernet > frames. Not only that but if we have multi-link subnets using route-over, the > router to host ratio goes up considerably. The problem space is then > multi-link subnets then multi-subnet site/zone/homenets. L3 routing is the > only way this is going to work in homenet.
This is not strictly true. ND-proxy is an alternative. I've been told it's not a *viable* alternative--- for unspecified and possibly non-technical reasons-- but it is an alternative. I've got a big bucket of popcorn to munch while I watch this discussion play out, and I really don't have a strong opinion one way or another. My take, to the extent I have one, is that in comparison to L2-briding and ND-proxy, L3 routing on home networks will be "a bag of hurt" (to borrow a phrase from Le Grande Fromage), but if that's the direction from which rough consensus will emerge... well, okay then. Let's open up the bag. -- james woodyatt <[email protected]> member of technical staff, core os networking _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
