Hi Stephen,

An L2 broadcast network is usually modeled with a pseudo-node and then
separate links between that pseudonode and
each L3 device.  Please take a look at Section B.1.2 where one of the
example ospf-node-attributes is a pseudonode.

Regards,
Alia

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:46 PM Stephen Cheng <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Authors of RFC 8346,
>
>
>
> I have a few questions regarding RFC 8346, and would appreciate your
> illumination.
>
>    1. Is RFC 8346 ietf-l3-topology intended to cover modelling of L3
>    links that is supported by a L2 broadcast network (such as an Ethernet
>    network)?
>    2. If so, would it be correct to model the L3 connection between every
>    pair of L3 device on the L2 broadcast network as a pair of unidirectional
>    l3 unicast link ? For example if there are 100 devices on 192.168.1/24
>    network, should there be 9900 unidirectional l3 unicast links?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Stephen Cheng
>
>
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