[148025] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Thu Dec 29 21:11:52 2011
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:24:59 CDT."
<69748.1325208299@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:10:28 +1100
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <69748.1325208299@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:12:43 +1100, Mark Andrews said:
>
> > Well I'd like to be able to plug in the cable router and the DSL
> > router at home and have it all just work. Just because it is 0.2%
> > today doesn't mean that it will be 0.2% in the future. As home
> > users get more and more dependent on the internet working having
> > diverse, independent network connectivity will become more and more
> > important.
>
> Agreed. But did you plug the cable router and the DSL router both
> into your PC, or into yet another box that needs routing smarts and
> then your PC just needs to know "talk to the smart box"?
>
> (Hint - if the cable router and the DSL router are both plugged into
> your PC, how do all the *other* devices in your house reach the internet? :)
I'm curious. How did you get directly connected to the PC from the
above description?
The routers would be connected to the internal *network*.
Mark
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