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Re: [manet] DLEP LID lengths

Rick Taylor <rick@tropicalstormsoftware.com> Mon, 19 June 2017 16:03 UTC

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On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 15:40 +0000, Morgan, Keith wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I would imagine that modems will either report MACs or LIDs
> consistently depending on whether they are Layer 2 or 3. For us it
> would just be LIDs, but derived from the routers MAC.

Hi Keith,

I can see that being true in the common case, but there is the lurking
detail of multicast logical destinations, which remain 'normal' MAC
addresses.  So I would expect your implementation to use them in some
way if you have multicast support.

Cheers,

Rick

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