Re: [homenet] biggest L2 domain

Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> Fri, 13 December 2019 20:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] biggest L2 domain
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Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:
    > If it turns out that there is some performance benefit to making a
    > port-to-port, point-to-point link for the router pair, then we can do that
    > adaptively. That’s an optimization: it need not be where we start, and indeed
    > back when we were initially working on this, I don’t think there was any
    > assumption that we would try to constrain links to being either
    > point-to-point or multi-station.

I'm not arguing for doing this.
I'm asking what happened to the text that said that we weren't.