MS/TP distinction host vs router? MS/TP device pingable?
Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com> Tue, 27 March 2012 08:08 UTC
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Just some comments on the MS/TP draft, of which I support advancement. Does MS/TP have any distinction between classes of devices? Something like Host vs Router? Something like multiply-interfaced machine vs. singly-interfaced? More powerful machine vs less powerful? Maybe this distinction could guide reservation of more than just 255 broadcast address (e.g. 254 all-hosts, 253 all-routers) further mapped into IPv6 multicast addresses. Another comment I had related to similarity to 6lowpan, which is good in general. But would it be possible to ping an MS/TP device from the Internet (ping end-to-end, no header compression). Just some comments. Alex
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