David, Nobody has ever suggested this - why do think it useful? Thanks, Acee On Jun 23, 2012, at 9:31 AM, David Lamparter wrote:
> Hi, > > > out of a rather funny misunderstanding of RFC 5309, I've ended up with > half an implementation of OSPF running in ignorance of the IP subnet > mask on a broadcast network. After cleaning up the misunderstanding and > taking a step back, I found draft-ietf-ospf-hybrid-bcast-and-p2mp, which > I expected to contain a note about this, but no such thing. > > The general idea would be to operate a broadcast medium with a /32 > subnet mask, possibly unnumbered, and allowing adjacencies with just > about anything that sends a Hello (and passes auth). > > The link can operate as regular broadcast, hybrid-bcast-p2mp, or P-t-P > (the last would amount to RFC 5309 with the detail that the peer address > is not known up front.) > > (For OSPFv3, this is obviously not interesting since with link-local > addresses, there is no notion of similar same-subnet restrictions.) > > I haven't found anything on this - is this mode of operation already > described somewhere? > > > Cheers, > > David > <signature.asc>_______________________________________________ > OSPF mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ospf
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