On 24/01/2015 08:44, Joe Touch wrote:
> Charlie,
>
> On 1/23/2015 11:25 AM, Charlie Perkins wrote:
...
>>
>> We very definitely do *not* want to claim it is an L2 network.
>
> Then what is it? A set of L2 networks? Those are interconnected by what L3
> calls routers.
Not always. They are sometimes connected by what L2 calls bridges or
switches. In the case of 802.11 they might be connected by intermediate
wire L2 802.3 networks. The whole thing may then pretend to be a single
broadcast L2 segment but it isn't, and it doesn't perform like one.
There are many ramifications and some of them are clearer now than they
were during the PILC study.
Brian
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