[143441] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 end user addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Helms)
Wed Aug 10 11:12:18 2011
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:11:32 -0400
From: Scott Helms <khelms@ispalliance.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <F812829D-0BAE-4FE4-9E3B-7A32A8499DD4@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Neither of these are true, though in the future we _might_ have
deployable technology that allows for automated routing setup (though I
very seriously doubt it) in the home. Layer 2 isolation is both easier
and more reliable than attempting it at layer 3 which is isolation by
agreement, i.e. it doesn't really exist.
On 8/10/2011 9:02 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> Bridging eliminates the multicast isolation that you get from routing.
>
> This is not a case for bridging, it's a case for making it possible to do real
> routing in the home and we now have the space and the technology to
> actually do it in a meaningful and sufficiently automatic way as to be
> applicable to Joe 6-Mac.
>
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