Re: Home network topology

[james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>]

On Mar 11, 2008, at 15:48, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> For instance, 6to4rd is now proposing that only a /64 be assigned to  
> a given
> customer. If we expect the home to be fully bridged, that's fine.  
> Otherwise,
> there's going to be an interesting problem.

I expect that most home networks for the foreseeable future will be  
well-served by just a single bridged 802.1 network.  A significant,  
and non-ignorable fraction of them will need to run an interior  
routing protocol behind the residential Internet gateway.  One  
scenario is the remote worker whose office network is required by  
policy [or tax law] to be firewalled from their personal network.   
Other potentially more common scenarios spring to mind, but sadly, I'm  
unable to offer a disquisition on them at this time.


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james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>
member of technical staff, communications engineering