Re: Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-clausen-ipdvb-enc-00.txt

[Patrick Cipiere <Patrick.Cipiere@udcast.com>]

"Kearney" <clausen@cosy.sbg.ac.at> wrote:

> If we carry IP datagrams we have in that packet the source and the
> destination address;

Yes, layer 3 addresses.
On a broadcast link, I believe we need layer 2 addresses.

> if we consider the MPEG-2 system a subnetwork, we can
> look at it as either a connectionless network in which case we would have to
> carry a source and a destination local address (taking Ethernet MAC
> addresses for this is not very efficient)

Could you explain "this is not very efficient"?

Patrick.
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