On 26 aug 2008, at 17:30, Templin, Fred L wrote:
clients can contact relays via link-local multicast.
That is exactly the problem. On 802.11 networks multicasts are sent at a very low speed for compatibility and because there are no ACKs for multicasts, so they use up a lot of airtime/bandwidth.
The hack that I was talking about would be for accesspoints to not repeat multicasts from clients on the wireless network. (I'm guessing this would make the network at IETF meetings a lot faster during plenaries.)
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