On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com> wrote:
Thinking about the CPE thread, isn't this a case for bridging as a feature in end-user devices? If Joe's media-centre box etc would bridge its downstream ports to the upstream port, the devices on them could just get an address, whether by DHCPv6 from the CPE router's delegation or by SLAAC, and then register in local DNS or more likely do multicast- DNS so they could find each other.
This would require the ISP gateway to have IPv6 ND entries for all of the end-user's devices. If that is only a few devices, like the typical SOHO LAN today, that's probably fine. It is not fine if I purchase some IPv6-connected nanobots. Given today's routers, it is probably not even fine if the average SOHO goes from 1 state entry to just 20 or 30. I have about 20 devices in my home that use the Internet -- TVs, DVRs, VoIP telephones, printer, mobile phones with Wi-Fi, a couple of video game consoles, etc. I imagine that is not atypical these days. -- Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz> Sr Network Operator / Innovative Network Concepts