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 to describe the two
>protocols' support for stub networks, and nobody never told us which of
>the many definitions of stub network they meant, let alone describing the
>use case precisely.  (The document uses the same definition as Cisco's
>EIGRP documentation, in case you're interested.)
>
>I'm imagining a dedicated device that has both a WiFi interface and
>a low-power interface that acts as a gateway between the Homenet network
>and the sensor network.  Such a device would come from the factory with
>the low power interface configured as a stub.

It is my understanding that this is the use case for auto-configured stub
routers as well. They are constrained devices that are only capable acting
as a stub router. 

Thanks,
Acee 





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