> Op 19 feb. 2015, om 19:18 heeft Ole Troan <[email protected]> het volgende 
> geschreven:
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> +1.
> 
> there are very few shared media around anymore.

Still one to phase out: spectrum ;-)

I would say the opposite, I see kids that have never been connected to a wired 
link. What about wireless repeaters, which forward packets and do not have a 
network jacket? Wireless backhaul links to ISP?

Teco


> I don't think I've ever been connected to a 10base5.
> why should the IP subnet model emulate a shared medium, when the physical 
> topology is a star.
> 
> wireless with security is also a star topology, with a unidirectional 
> broadcast channel.
> 
> cheers,
> Ole
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