Re: draft-wbeebee-ipv6-cpe-router-04 comments

[Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org>]

>>I take it back.  It's interesting in the other cases as well.  Two CPE
>
>>routers attached to the same link will exchange their prefixes with
>>MSR advertisements regardless of whether the RAs from the service
>>provider have PIO options in them.  As they should.
>
>
> Wow! Next time it is better you send us ascii diagram of the network
> topology you are talking about because I was on a totally different page
> than you were.  Thanks to my Cisco colleague in Ole who talked with you
> at the IETF and then Ole pinged my buddy Wes and explained your
> topology, I realized, I am talking one thing while you are talking
> another.  We were all thinking that the CPE Rtr would be the first hop
> in the home while you were describing a hub directly behind the
> broadband modem.  The hub is a totally broken model to deploy your
> Airport Extreme with the Apple TV.  The hub sends all your video to the
> SP, say Comcast, and your home access will be shutdown fairly soon
> because the home hogged so much of their network bandwidth with the
> video going between the Apple TV and Airport Extreme. Sorry, I don't
> consider this totally broken network as a reason to add MSR RFC 4191 to
> the CPE Rtr just yet.

I think the model is to have a switch behind the CM so you wouldn't
need to congest the upstream.

Ole