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FW: Comment on RFC 3750
We did discuss this with uman and I stated that but here is the input.
Do we care?
/jim
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 10:18 AM
> To: Bound, Jim
> Subject: Comment on RFC 3750
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> Jim,
>
> this may be a stupid and obvious observation but I just thought I
> would ask.
>
> I have recently had some personal experience that shows Christian
> model for an unmanaged network in RFC 3750 may not be totally correct.
> I have a DLINK wireless access router at home. It is configured and
> functions principly as the model describes except.... the router has
> four 10/100 ethernet interfaces besides the 802.11G. Should not each
> wireless channel (SSID) be it's own subnet. Each router can handle I
> believe 10 SSIDS? IN addition, the
> 802.3 interfaces should their own subnet also.
>
> Im trying to set up a peer-to-peer gaming system with two or three
> PCs... a laptop with wireless and a desktop with wire.
> They can't communicate ....
> the DLINK router only routes out and it can only be configured with a
> single default gateway IP address. Isn't this an important function?
> Shouldn't these routers be capable of supporting multiple subnets on
> wired and wireless interfaces so all ports can interact for
> peer-to-peer gaming, client-server, and server-server communications.
> Is it just DLINK has a poor implementation or is this a common
> approach in Industry. Im spending a lot of time and money trying to
> work around this issue.
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