On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swm...@swm.pp.se> wrote: > IETF standards generally assume that multicast and unicast are delivered > with a similar level of packetloss (which is low). > > Not all 802.11 implementations have the multicast ACK mechanism implemented, > thus it would seem that multicast will be less likely to get delivered to > the recipient over these 802.11 implementations. > > For me, it seems these 802.11 broadcast/multicast ACK functions should be > "mandatory" to implement if the device wants to support IPv4 and IPv6 > networks.
Excuse me, multicast ACKs on 802.11? I know that some implementations/stacks split up multicast into several unicasts (which will then be acked and will have retransmissions), but I have yet to hear about multicast ACKs in the IEEE 802.11 standard. Henning Rogge _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
