[780] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: IETF questions -- Internet growth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Thu May 30 12:19:46 1991
Date: Thu, 30 May 91 09:10:09 PDT
From: fbaker@acc.com (Fred Baker)
To: smb@ulysses.att.com
Cc: art@acc.com, com-priv@uu.psi.com, dklein@pueblo.att.com, emv@ox.com,
Steve:
>> It appeared to us -- and I'd be happy to be corrected if I'm wrong --
>> that there's no way (today) to do multiple levels of subnetting.
Actually, there are several protocols that support it, RIP and OSPF
being standard ones.
I can't comment on hosts other than the ones I use; those have the
concepts of "the local subnet", and "the router", and for transparent
subnets require proxy ARP. While implementation of the use of RFC
950's ICMP Address Mask Request/Reply on hosts, and a standard Router
Detection scheme (the One True Value of RIP...), would be useful to
obviate proxy ARP and the ICMP ReDirect, I don't see that the current
products and architecture leaves you unable to design networks with
layers of information hiding.
What do you need in addition? What are we overlooking?
Fred
