Re: [mif] Some thoughts

[Xiangsong Cui <Xiangsong.Cui at huawei.com>]

Hi,

This is just a comment but not objection to the discussion,

About the difference between host and router,
Wiki may also be taken as a reference, 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_(network)
Yes, there are software routers, the configuration option in Linux PCs and 
others...
but the operation of *pure host* and router are different practice.

Regards
Xiangsong

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Herrin" <bill at herrin.us>
To: "Xiangsong Cui" <Xiangsong.Cui at huawei.com>
Cc: "liu dapeng" <maxpassion at gmail.com>; <mif at ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: [mif] Some thoughts


> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Xiangsong Cui <Xiangsong.Cui at huawei.com> 
> wrote:
> > I just want to remind that Router and Host are different concept.
> >
> > > > > Routers are hosts too and figuring out ......
> >
> > Take the definition from RFC2460:
>
> Hi Xiangsong,
>
> Two observations:
>
> 1. MIF's charter is not IPv6 specific and the distinction you draw was
> not made for IPv4.
>
> 2. Both the IPv4 and IPv6 network stacks for PC's and routers have
> stayed more or less converged for quite a while. Higher end routers
> have some hardware assists that don't tend to show up in PCs but
> they're otherwise just close to identical. If we're to recommend that
> change, we ought to have better reasoning than, "we didn't want to
> deal with the router case" and we should very thoroughly explain that
> reasoning.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
>
>
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