Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On 28 feb 2008, at 23:39, Joe Touch wrote:It would be very useful to indicate when you're talking about a device or the behavior of a device, i.e.:host vs 'device acting as a host'"a device acting as a" is implied.
Sure - although I appreciate you're being careful here, it's important that the output clarify this issue. We're living with the cost of not doing so in other docs...
The reason is that routers often act as endpoints (for control plane, e.g.); if we say "routers never do X", then a router acting as an endpoint will never do it, which would be bad.I'll see if further clarification is required in this area in the next version. However, I think I was fairly careful with router, node and host. Most of the time the distinction is just that routers send router advertisements and hosts listen for them.
Is there, e.g., never a case where you'd want a router to act like a host while it's being configured?
Joe
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