On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Keith Moore wrote: > however, when that functionality requires having knowledge that is only > possessed by the network (which is what hosts need to do address > selection), moving that functionality all the way to hosts is probably > the Wrong Thing. especially when you realize that a lot of the value > added by IPv6 is the ability to have large numbers of relatively stupid > hosts (like sensors).
moving it to the CPE routers is the correct solution in my opinion. of course, the line blurrs when you use a host as a router, but that is a different story... regarding the value add, one would still need a relatively large physical routing mesh, or a least a stack of hubs, or a wireless access point... some kind of readily scalable layer 1, to have large numbers of stupid hosts, though they need not necessarily be sensors. anyone who has admin'ed a network of say, beauracrats for example, can readily attest to this;) Scott > > (you might make an argument for moving the functionality to the edge of > the network, but not all the way to hosts, and that argument might be > convincing) > > Keith > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > sleekfreak pirate broadcast http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
