Suresh, Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krish...@ericsson.com> writes:
> The nodes attached to different subscriber lines cannot directly send > packets to each other. They need to talk through the edge router. How is this enforced? If I happen to know the mac address of my neighbor's router (or host), can't I just send stuff directly? If I happen to send bogus NAs to my neighbor, does the architecture prevent this? > All traffic needs to go through the edge router. There is no direct > host-to-host communication allowed between different subscriber > lines. Will edge routers send redirects when "neighbors" are sending traffic to each other? Or will the Edge Router become a performance bottleneck when lots of traffic going through it is sent right back out on its incoming interface? Thomas -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
