I don't think the list is served any longer by carrying on this discusion in public, so I'll reply privately...
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:36:59 -0700 "Tony Hain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith Moore wrote: > > L3 makes routing look flat to the end systems. That's its > > job - to steer packets through the network. The network is > > aware of topology so that end systems don't have to be. > > Step back from the trees and notice the forest. The L3 attachment point of > each end system is part of the topology information. Both end sytems are > required to know that part of the topology. That is the only part of the > topology they are required to know. [...etc...] -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
