[192148] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS in the campus Network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James R Cutler)
Fri Oct 21 17:40:38 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: James R Cutler <james.cutler@consultant.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:40:33 -0400
In-Reply-To: <CAAS_NfU=Trr39XsUY0oR0_RVUjbbvta5TQw1GRdVdDfBhL__Tw@mail.gmail.com>
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Oct 21, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Youssef Ghorbal <youssef.ghorbal@gmail.com> =
wrote, in part:
>=20
> Until people start complaining they can no more auto discover their
> Time Capsule left in the other building whereas their colleagues in
> the other building can etc etc. All fancy discover protocols breaks
> without L2 continuity !
Minor Correction: Correctly configured*, an Airport Extreme basestation =
(Time Capsule or not) does not require L2 connectivity to discover. In =
fact, Wide Area is used for discovery of many services not necessarily =
reachable by L2 connectivity. Apple=E2=80=99s Back to My Mac service is =
one example.
*Apple=E2=80=99s "Back to My Mac=E2=80=9D Wide Area Bonjour is enabled =
on an Airport basestation by entering appropriate Apple ID and password =
data in the Base Station tab as accessed by Airport Utility.
James R. Cutler
James.cutler@consultant.com
PGP keys at http://pgp.mit.edu
