Hi Pascal, I think we're straying from the original topic...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pascal Thubert (pthubert)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, June 11, 2004 11:24 pm Subject: RE: WLAN (was Re: IPv6 Host Configuration of Recursive DNS Server) > Interestingly, part of this pain comes from the decision to provide > Ethernet emulation for 802.11, while some practical use cases do not > actually require a broadcast medium. > > In particular, in the case of public access points, the desired effect > is a point to point connectivity with the access point; seems that > a PPP > support over the Wireless MAC layer would have done the trick > perfectly.For MIPv6, though, there's also the pain that IPv6CP > would not provide > an IPv6 address to the mobile device anyway. > > But all this can be worked out :) Indeed, with a new 'prefix' configuration option for IPv6CP, would work OK. This would result in an extra round trip for nodes which didn't support it ( a configure reject/ configure request pair ), but it would be backward compatible. Nodes which didn't support it would just send an RS anyway... No more nasty multicast at the link-layer :) Actally I like multicast, but for anything less common than television, optimization of the wireless link for single users per stream may take precedence. Greg -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
