Tim Coote <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 Apr 2019, at 17:04, Michael Richardson <[email protected]> > wrote:
mcr> The way for multiple routers in the house is to recognize that the IoT
mcr> gateway is the second router. It's not a second uplink.
mcr> So there are in fact three situations:
mcr> 1) multiple uplinks. (rare at this point, we all agree, partly I think
mcr> because it's hard to do)
mcr> 2) multiple routers. (rather common, often by mistake) 3) IoT routers
mcr> (usually on purpose)
> By ‘IoT router’, do you mean nodes providing the routing to 6LoWPAN
network
> (s) running over various protocols, the router that links IoT nodes to the
> internet, or something else such as incorporating sensors/actuators that
are
> powered and use wifi as the network protocol?
I mean the gateway between 6lowpan and the home network (whether it's wifi or
wired). That node likely also links them to the Internet (is appropriate,
ULA otherwise).
sensors/actuators with power and Wifi (and probably an marriage to a cloud
service) are "Web Enabled Devices", not IoT :-)
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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
-= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
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