> Lately I find myself wondering if there's not room for a uniform layer 2.5 > interface that is designed to work over a set of bridged 802-style layer 2 > networks, but presents a slightly different interface to the host. [...]
> (has this already been worked on and I just don't know about it?) There is a recent proposal in draft-perlman-zerouter-rbridge-00.txt which doesn't have authentication and tries to make the network more scalable by doing better than a spanning tree. Whether or where this fits in the IETF is an open issue. Erik -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
