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Re: [v6ops] question about draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host

Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> Mon, 03 July 2017 21:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] question about draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host
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>>> On 3 Jul 2017, at 15:16, Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Jul 3, 2017, at 9:07 AM, Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> wrote:
>>>> something that looks like a point to point interface on the router side.
>>> 
>>> So hosts on the link communicate through the router.   The reason I ask is that while this is certainly a valid way of doing it, it isn't clear to me that it's necessary.
>>> 
>> 
>> correct. almost all commonly used network topologies are point to point anyway.
>> just stop emulating a shared media with bridges and do routing at those points instead.
>> long time since anyone has seen a thick yellow cable.
> 
> But, as the saying goes, "just say multicast".

what about multicast?
no change in location of replication point, and the commonly used multicast scopes are of course much smaller.

Ole

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