The definition of a site triggered many questions. My understanding of it is that it's an administratively defined collection of nodes. Quite simply, 2 nodes A and B belong to the same site, if every router in this same site doesn't need to route data out of the site to reach the destination.
That means that a site could be: - in a single geographical location - spread out in several locations (with VPN). This would allow for a company to have intra-site communications without firewalling, even if it has locations in different geographical locations. Elliott "MANDAVILLI,SWAMY J (HP-FtCollins,ex1)" wrote: > > Hi ! > > With reference to "site-local-addresses", what is > the definition of a "site"? Are two nodes in two > different sites because of the configuration of > routing on the Routers in between them OR > BGP running on a Router in between them OR > through address allocation mechanisms OR > some other mechanism? > > In particular, I would like to know how to determine > if a given "site-local-address" belongs to the same site > as mine (i.e., my node). Is it possible to tell by > looking at the addresses of "my node" and the > "given site-local-address"? > > Sorry, if this is a silly question. > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Best Regards, > Swamy > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Elliott Norsa Ascend Communication Premea Sr Software Engineer Village d'entreprise Green Side mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 400 Avenue Roumanille, BP57 tel : (33) 4 92 96 56 22 ext: 65622 06901 Sophia Antipolis -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
