[Cerowrt-devel] Recording RF management info _and_ associated traffic?

[David Lang]

it doesn't get mixed in with tracking Internet routes as well.

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, dpreed at reed.com wrote:

> And having every /48 MAC address in your entterprise tracked is cheaper?
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> On Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:44pm, "David Lang" <david at lang.hm> said:
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>> On Sun, 25 Jan 2015, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
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>> > On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:09:59 -0800, David Lang said:
>> >> The difference is that the switches and their protocols have been
>> designed from
>> >> the beginning for this scale of operation, IP routing protocols are
>> designed for
>> >> much fewer endpoints to track.
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>> > Anybody who's carrying a full routing table was swallowing on the order
>> > of 528,833 routes (as of Friday's "weekly routing table report" posted
>> > to NANOG). Pretty much everybody and their pet llama accepts full tables
>> > thesedays.
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>> > You know anybody who's doing that many entries in an L2 Ethernet broadcast
>> > domain?
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>> The full IP routing tables are something that you normally only have to deal
>> with in a few devices at the perimeter of your network.
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>> What is being talked about here is routing each /32 IP address individually
>> throughout your network so that any IP address can be connected anywhere and
>> have it 'just work' as far as the client on that IP is concerned.
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>> David Lang
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