On Feb 19, 2015, at 1:29 PM, Ralph Droms <[email protected]> wrote: > If I can extrapolate and oversimplify a bit, now we've gotten to a > fundamental problem: how does a random collection of devices, links and ports > sort itself by DWIM into a coherent home network? How does a device with 16 > ports decide to group ports (0-5, 7, 10), (6, 8, 12-15) and (9, 11) into > separate subnets?
What Mikael is saying is that on homenet devices (not switches) each port is treated as a separate network, on the assumption that all of the physical ports on the homenet device are likely to connect to routers, and that any switched topology would be done using switches connected to homenet routers. I am not convinced by this; one of the issues I see here is that until DNSSD comes up with a solution, we are breaking service discovery on the home network by doing this. Granted, we already do that from Wifi to wired, but this seems gratuitous. _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
