Re: [Manet-dt] IANA Port & Multicast Addresses

Templin, Fred L wrote:

>Chris,
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>>First I don't understand the distinction between
>>all MANET routers and all MANET nodes. The model
>>I have (which I think is shared by RFC 2501) is
>>that a node contains a router and may contain hosts.
>>So "all MANET nodes" means "all MANET routers" plus
>>maybe also delivering to all hosts in the MANET, but
>>that's not clear to me.
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>We have been discussing this internally too. I think the
>question is, is it possible to have a node on a MANET
>link that is a neighbor of a MANET router but does not
>participate in the MANET routing protocol itself? If so,
>then it might make sense to have an "All MANET Nodes"
>multicast address that is different from "All MANET
>Routers". (And if not, why not?)
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I think that situation might be interesting for some very 
resource-limited devices. What I do not fully understand is why we need 
the "All MANET Nodes" if we can use for that case the "All hosts" 
(224.0.0.1) address.

Regards, Pedro

>Fred
>fred.l.templin@boeing.com 
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