> What you are suggesting here is heresy. You are saying that the basic > assumption made 35 years ago, Layering, doesn't work. What a surprise.
No. What this says is that strict layering has a performance cost, and a way to recover some of this performance is to organise carefully controlled leaks between the layers. (You're already doing that -- your layer 3 routing protocol is probably aware of physical carrier sense.) The success of the (reasonably well layered) TCP/IP suite would indicate that the market has decided that this is a cost well worth paying. -- Juliusz _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
