[rbridge] Conflicts to avoid for BoF/WG?

[Fred L. Templin]

Erik,

Understood, but what I meant to ask is whether Firewire devices
will always sit behind a router *interface* for simplicity and
security? The device with the router interface might have many
other interfaces that act as Rbridge or even simple bridge
interfaces, so the device itself would still be a hybrid. The
zeroconf considerations would really be no different than what
we have been discussing for generic RBridges, then - i.e., the
goal is for no manual config needed.

Fred
fltemplin at acm.org
 

-----Original Message-----
From: rbridge-bounces at postel.org [mailto:rbridge-bounces at postel.org] On
Behalf Of Erik Nordmark
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 4:18 PM
To: Developing a hybrid router/bridge.
Subject: Re: [rbridge] Conflicts to avoid for BoF/WG?


Fred L. Templin wrote:

> If we can say that Firewire devices will only occur along the network 
> edges (rather than somewhere in the middle) and will always sit behind

> a router (rather than a bridge) doesn't that make things more simple 
> and secure? Am I being unrealistic here?

The issue that folks bring up is that random consumers can be expected 
to know how to configure the IP subnets into a router. Hence the desire 
for something that has the property of a bridge of not needing 
configuration.

    Erik
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