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Re: [homenet] Homenets and MPVD

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Tue, 03 February 2015 12:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] Homenets and MPVD
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On Feb 3, 2015, at 4:27 AM, Markus Stenberg <markus.stenberg@iki.fi> wrote:
> PVD tell you also about the kind of connectivity available there etc. While I am sure we _could_ fabricate local one, it is much easier to tell that e.g. one upstream connection is pay-per-byte 4g, and other one is VDSL2 and let hosts make educated choices instead of guesses about source prefixes to use.

One of the design goals of the PVD architecture is to make it possible to get the same behavior in a 4G handset with a Wifi interface and in a laptop with no 4G interface that's connected to a network with a 4G PVD and a wireline PVD.

> Is this covered somewhere elsewhere in the DHCP option jungle?

A document is being worked on to address this, but no, it is not yet covered.

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