Erik, >> If all the ports are the same, no designated uplink, that is better. > > While I can see that we can build the internals of the home network with > devices without a designated uplink (automatically configure prefixes, the > routing protocol etc), what I don't understand is how the connectivity to the > ISP would happen. > > How do you see that working? > Will each router try the protocols it would use against the ISP (PPPOE, DHCP > PD, etc) on every port? Or on every port where it doesn't find a OSPF (or > whatever home routing protocol we choose) neighbor? Or does the user have to > configure the Customer Edge Router to say "port eth0 is the WAN port?" > > FWIW I haven't seen any discussion to try to automate this. The manual > configuration would be just as error prone as making the distinction between > the yellow WAN port and the blue LAN ports on current home gear.
this is the problem we named "border discovery" during the interim. there were a few ideas of how that could be done. either implicit or explicit. nothing concluded, and I agree this is an important problem to tackle. cheers, Ole _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
