On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Ted Lemon wrote:
It means that every single device on a wired network is on a different subnet. Perhaps it doesn't cause any extreme harm, but it certainly makes managing and debugging the network harder, and it means that you can't have a layer two switch anymore. So the question I would ask is not "is there a problem with this," because obviously there is, but rather "is there a benefit to doing it this way." I am curious to know what you think the benefit is.
I am not mandating that each and every device is in its own broadcast domain, I am however advocating that we leave the model that has been prevalent for 10-15 years at least, ie that a home gateway has a "WAN" port and 4 "LAN" ports, and these 4 ports are bridged. I'm saying the typical device should have 4-5 "L3" ports. You're then free to connect one of these to your L2 switch if you so please.
I would like my router-to-router links to not have a lot of hosts in them if I can avoid it.
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