To come back on the discussion why mcast matters for IPv6 while bcast does
not for IPv4:
- IPv6 uses heavily mcast while in IPv4 (ND is quite chatty)
- IPv6 uses many more addresses than IPv4 (hence even more chatty)
A couple of us running very large (more than 1 STA) WiFi network have
experim
To: Mikael Abrahamsson
> Cc: Homenet
> Subject: Re: [homenet] 802.11 is just fine for IPv6 [was: Despair]
>
> > I don't see how you can claim that ISIS can't use multicast on wifi
> > because multicast on wifi doesn't work,
>
> I have never claimed that. Bab
sorry, address typo. again.
IMHO, a better place for this discussion than homenet is Mboned,
for example in conjunction with evolving
draft-mcbride-mboned-wifi-mcast-problem-statement.
I do not particularily like the scope either of the discussion in homenet
or in the draft in MBoned, because bo
IMHO, a better place for this discussion than homenet is Mboned,
for example in conjunction with evolving
draft-mcbride-mboned-wifi-mcast-problem-statement.
I do not particularily like the scope either of the discussion in homenet
or in the draft in MBoned, because both only look at the problems,
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Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 10:21 AM
To: Mikael Abrahamsson
Cc: Homenet
Subject: Re: [homenet] 802.11 is just fine for IPv6 [was: Despair]
> I don't see how you can claim that ISIS can't use multicast on wifi
> because multicast on wifi doesn't work,
I ha
> I don't see how you can claim that ISIS can't use multicast on wifi
> because multicast on wifi doesn't work,
I have never claimed that. Babel uses multicast on wifi. (Once again,
Mikael, I request that you stop misrepresenting my position.)
I think that the multicast reduction technique used
On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
That's an overstatement. IPv6 works just fine over 802.11, it just
From what I heard in v6ops, it doesn't work well for larger settings like
conferences, at least not without multicast reduction techniques.
So I'd say it suffers from the exact
> However, I do think that 802.11 needs to point out to its members that if
> they don't implement assured multicast replication, IP doesn't work
> properly.
That's an overstatement. IPv6 works just fine over 802.11, it just
suffers from increased multicast packet loss and lower rate. I don't
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