> On Feb 19, 2015, at 1:45 PM 2/19/15, Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
But I think one of the important points for homenet is that many people will just buy "internet" devices, not routers and switches. I've been out of the loop so I should go back and check the architecture before I say too much more ... what is the expectation for grouping ports on homenet devices and is there an expectation that people will buy homenet devices and switches and know where to use them both? > > 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. ..and, of course, if we solve WiFi-wired for DNS-SD, the solution will likely work for some small number of subnets. - Ralph _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
