Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:27:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| This, to my mind, is the very basic reason why
| SL addresses are a generally Bad Idea. Requiring
| hosts to have knowledge of network topology is
| a bug, not a feature.
I agree with the last sentence, but knowing about SL addresses
tells you nothing at all about network topology. The two just
aren't related. Assigning SL addresses requires knowledge of
the topology (as does assigning global addreses), but to use
one doesn't. All the hosts do is use them.
kre
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