>> Well, ethernet runs at different speeds and there is no abstraction >> for that in babel...
> Why not? Switches. Most home routers have their (on-chip) Ethernet interface behind an internal switch. That is how they provide 5 or more Ethernet ports using a single-NIC SoC. That has the unfortunate consequence that neither carrier sense nor link speed sensing is going to work on most home routers without model-specific code. That is what I allude to in Section 4.3 of the draft, but I see that I need to be more explicit in -02. Your (plural) feedback is being helpful. > I mean the babel protocol, not current code. Oh, if I don't have to implement it, then I'm all in favour ;-) > So what I want to see is a proposal for a routing protocol that specify > link metrics for a set of commonly used link types in homes. That's something the IS-IS community has already done, I believe, although their values might not map directly to Babel metrics (which are just 16 bits long). -- Juliusz _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
