Gert Doering <g...@space.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 09:54:08AM -0500, Michael Richardson wrote:
>> I thought that we wrote somewhere in RFC7368 that the Homenet router
should
>> collect as many ports as possible together into a single L2 zone.
>> I can't find that text right now. Did it go away?
>>
>> In testing, we have found a device that does not put it's 5-"LAN" ports
into
>> a bridge. That's probably a missing configuration, but in the meantime,
we
>> have an interesting HNCP and naming setup!
> My understanding of "homenet" and "HNCP" devices has always been "every
> single hole in the box is a routed port". Now that's my understanding and
> not necessarily written down somewhere.
It wasn't intended to be automatic, but rather based upon provisioned
knowledge that a device had.
The intent was to avoid routing-at-layer-two (i.e. spanning tree, etc.), but
not to replace switches.
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