RE: [RRG] Consensus check: renumbering - missing dimension

["Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch@muada.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:46 AM
>To: Templin, Fred L
>Cc: Routing Research Group
>Subject: Re: [RRG] Consensus check: renumbering - missing dimension
>
>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.)

Who says the client has to contact the relay over an 802.11
network? Who says the client even has to reside on a different
physical platform than the relay? AFAICT, an internal virtual
link can service a client's requests through relay just the
same as for an external physical link.

Fred
fred.l.templin@boeing.com

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