Re: [homenet] Stub networks [draft-mrw-homenet-rtg-comparison-02.txt]

2015-03-08 Thread Curtis Villamizar
Brian, Good points. See inline. Plus a new point below. In message 54f8ae20.5030...@gmail.com Brian E Carpenter writes: Hi, 8. Support for Stub Networks and Stub Routers ... IS-IS supports stub-networks as defined above simply by advertising the prefix associated with a

Re: [homenet] Stub networks [draft-mrw-homenet-rtg-comparison-02.txt]

2015-03-06 Thread Ray Hunter
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: Or more generally, how does a stub router know that it's a stub router, when there is no human to tell it so? Yeah, it's not very clear. We were actually asked to describe the two protocols' support for stub networks, and nobody never told us which of the many

Re: [homenet] Stub networks [draft-mrw-homenet-rtg-comparison-02.txt]

2015-03-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 07/03/2015 01:02, Ray Hunter wrote: Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: Or more generally, how does a stub router know that it's a stub router, when there is no human to tell it so? Yeah, it's not very clear. We were actually asked to describe the two protocols' support for stub networks, and

Re: [homenet] Stub networks [draft-mrw-homenet-rtg-comparison-02.txt]

2015-03-06 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 7 Mar 2015, Brian E Carpenter wrote: But now I don't see what's to stop a home user from buying a more general-purpose router which happens to have a ZigBee port or something, and plugging it in such a way that it *should* behave as a stub router. How does it discover that and

[homenet] Stub networks [draft-mrw-homenet-rtg-comparison-02.txt]

2015-03-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, 8. Support for Stub Networks and Stub Routers ... IS-IS supports stub-networks as defined above simply by advertising the prefix associated with a link, but not the link itself. This is sometimes referred to as a passive link. Further an IS-IS router has the ability to

Re: [homenet] Stub networks [draft-mrw-homenet-rtg-comparison-02.txt]

2015-03-05 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Or more generally, how does a stub router know that it's a stub router, when there is no human to tell it so? Yeah, it's not very clear. We were actually asked to describe the two protocols' support for stub networks, and nobody never told us which of the many definitions of stub network they

Re: [homenet] Stub networks [draft-mrw-homenet-rtg-comparison-02.txt]

2015-03-05 Thread Christian Hopps
On Mar 5, 2015, at 2:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 8. Support for Stub Networks and Stub Routers ... IS-IS supports stub-networks as defined above simply by advertising the prefix associated with a link, but not the link itself. This is

Re: [homenet] Stub networks [draft-mrw-homenet-rtg-comparison-02.txt]

2015-03-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 06/03/2015 09:19, Acee Lindem (acee) wrote: On 3/5/15, 2:46 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek j...@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr wrote: Or more generally, how does a stub router know that it's a stub router, when there is no human to tell it so? Yeah, it's not very clear. We were actually asked

Re: [homenet] Stub networks [draft-mrw-homenet-rtg-comparison-02.txt]

2015-03-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 06/03/2015 08:36, Christian Hopps wrote: On Mar 5, 2015, at 2:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 8. Support for Stub Networks and Stub Routers ... IS-IS supports stub-networks as defined above simply by advertising the prefix associated with a link,