[e2e] What should e2e protocols know about lower layers?
Joe Touch
touch at ISI.EDU
Thu Oct 11 08:55:00 PDT 2001
Lloyd Wood wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Joe Touch wrote:
>
>
>>We're also seeing a proliferation of NAT boxes.
>>
>>At some point we have to decide what is an appropriate or meaningful
>>part of the architecture. Certainly misconfigured things aren't.
>>
>
> but they should be tolerated.
This can't be realistic. Misconfigured things operate either
incorrectly, with lower performance, more network load, or not at all.
This is no different.
>>Perhaps such NATs and long links configured as broadcast should be
>>in the same bin.
>>
>
> long links configured as broadcast?
>
> Do you have a more specific objection to satellite broadcast links or
> the use of geostationary orbit for network traffic?
The only issue with broadcast long links is when the broadcast is either
inefficient or gives a misleading response. Neither is true for long,
truly broadcast shared media.
The problem is long point-to-point links that are configured as if they
were shared media.
Joe
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