On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 08:40:52AM -0700, David Lang wrote: > why does IPv6 rely on multicast? > > multicast is never going to work that well on a busy wireless > network, especially one that's encrypted with a different key to > each station.
It relies on multicast the same way IPv4 relies on broadcast (ARP, DHCP). If you like broadcast better than multicast, you're free to simply treat it as such. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
