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Re: [v6ops] Routers are hosts too! (Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-host-addr-availability-04.txt)

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Wed, 06 January 2016 21:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Routers are hosts too! (Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-host-addr-availability-04.txt)
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+1 (and then some)

AFAICT:

	- a host is an Internet device that sources or sinks packets

	- a router is an Internet device that *also* relays packets

It may be possible to implement a router that never acts as a host, but
that requires it never participate actively in routing protocols, IP
signalling, etc.

Joe

On 1/6/2016 1:24 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
> Routers are universally hosts too. The distinction between a router and
> a host is that a router will also accept packets not sent to addresses
> assigned to the devices interfaces. It will then see what to do with
> them according to the route table, sending the packet where ever the 
> route table says or dropping them. That is all that makes it a router.

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