+1 > -----Original Message----- > From: Int-area [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian E > Carpenter > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 11:16 AM > To: Alexandru Petrescu; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Int-area] About draft-baccelli-manet-multihop-communication-04 > > Alex, > > > but to improve the layers below IP such as to have IP run unmodified. > > In the general case that is impossible, because the SDO that develops > the lower layer isn't interested. If the lower layer is intrinsically > NBMA then for sure ARP or ND+DAD will not work as designed. If the lower > layer doesn't support a physical MTU of at least 1280 IPv6 will not work > as designed. So in the general case both an adaptation layer and an > NBMA solution are required. And as you know, there are other "Ethernet" > assumptions that don't apply in a low-power wireless scenario. > > Of course the goal is "IP over Everything" but that isn't the same as > "Everything must be like Ethernet", which you seem to imply. > > In fact when you read draft-baccelli-manet-multihop-communication > (and imagine what its security section will say when it's been > written), I think the conclusion is that a great many things have > to change, not in the IP packet format, but in the ecosystem > currently provided by ARP/DHCP or RA/ND/DAD/SLAAC/DHCPv6. > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Int-area mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
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