At 1:39 PM -0500 2/1/02, Keith Moore wrote: >To me it seems entirely plausible that networks consisting of large >numbers of point-to-point links, assembled into trees, will be all the >rage in a few years. Even Ethernet is becoming more a point-to-point >technology rather than a bus technology.
Like Ethernet bridges, we can do IP-layer "host routing" among an interconnected set of point-to-point links, treating the interconnected set as a single subnet (i.e., sharing a single /64). This is the multi- link subnet idea, and I think it would be a very nice way to handle residential and small office sites with multiple links, being just as "plug-and-play" as Ethernet bridges (no need to assign subnet numbers, etc.) Steve -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
