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Isomer • today at 4:57 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I don't understand why you can't have any protocol that can (potentially recursively) resolve to a layer 2 address as a next hop.

v4 route with v6 next hop? Seems reasonable. v6 route with v4 next hop? Why not? v4/v6 route with a mac address as a next hop? Trivial. v4/v6 route with a DNS next hop? Could be recursively resolved to a v4/v6 address, and then potentially recursively resolved to a MAC address. I wouldn't recommend it, but sure. v4/v6 route with a netbeui name as a next hop? You appear to be mad, but I'm not going to be the one to stand in your way.


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q3k • today at 5:01 PM

That's basically MP-BGP! Your dream is real.

(Keep in mind that the setup described here has work for years now.)