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Re: Anyone using uvlan out there?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Franklin)
Fri Sep 14 10:27:29 2007

In-Reply-To: <20070914030350.GP25861@hezmatt.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:26:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Tim Franklin" <tim@pelican.org>
To: "NANOG" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Fri, September 14, 2007 4:03 am, Matt Palmer wrote:
> XBox games don't work over a routed network?  Please tell me that XBox
> Live isn't just a giant uvlan install.

XBox Live is regular, routed IP, that doesn't even need to much work to
function from the wrong side of EvilConsumerBroadbandNAT.

I guess the point was talking about original non-360 Xbox games, some of
which supported 'LAN play' by hooking a lot of consoles together on the
same local network.  I have no idea what was sitting in the Ethernet
frames that wasn't routable.

Cheers,
Tim.



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