On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Alexander Harrowell <a.harrow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thinking about the CPE thread, isn't this a case for bridging as a > feature in end-user devices? If Joe's media-centre box etc would bridge > its downstream ports to the upstream port, the devices on them could > just get an address, whether by DHCPv6 from the CPE router's delegation > or by SLAAC, and then register in local DNS or more likely do multicast- > DNS so they could find each other.
This would require the ISP gateway to have IPv6 ND entries for all of the end-user's devices. If that is only a few devices, like the typical SOHO LAN today, that's probably fine. It is not fine if I purchase some IPv6-connected nanobots. Given today's routers, it is probably not even fine if the average SOHO goes from 1 state entry to just 20 or 30. I have about 20 devices in my home that use the Internet -- TVs, DVRs, VoIP telephones, printer, mobile phones with Wi-Fi, a couple of video game consoles, etc. I imagine that is not atypical these days. -- Jeff S Wheeler <j...@inconcepts.biz> Sr Network Operator / Innovative Network Concepts