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Re: Home network topology



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On Mar 12, 2008, at 1:42 PM, james woodyatt wrote:

On Mar 12, 2008, at 11:01, Fred Baker wrote:
On Mar 12, 2008, at 8:41 AM, james woodyatt wrote:

I expect that most home networks for the foreseeable future will be well-served by just a single bridged 802.1 network. [...]

I would be very careful in making sweeping statements about home networks. [...]

Just to be clear, that wasn't a typo in my previous message. I did not mean 802.11. I meant IEEE 802.1D.

Yes, and I am pointing out that there is a significant set of networks, mine being an example, which are not one 802.1d network.

I come back to the substance of my remark. I think there are sets of users that can very reasonably use various prefix lengths - one size does not fit all, even in a SOHO CPE. Building such an assumption into base specifications that are expected to guide implementations from multiple vendors seems like a very bad idea. If Apple wants to do that in a very low end single-subnet CPE, that's Apple's choice, but that doesn't make that the canonical product.
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