On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:17 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > There is no reason why one cannot set up an enterprise network to support > roaming, yet maintaining the property that IP addresses don't change while > roaming from AP to AP. Here's a simple concept, that amounts to moving > what would be in the Ethernet bridging tables up to the IP layer. > > > > All addresses in the enterprise are assigned from a common prefix (XXX/16 > in IPv4, perhaps). Routing in each access point is used to decide whether > to send the packet on its LAN, or to reflect it to another LAN. A node's > preferred location would be updated by the endpoint itself, sending its > current location to its current access point (via ARP or some other > protocol). The access point that hears of a new node that it can reach > tells all the other access points that the node is attached to it. > Delivery of a packet to a node is done by the access point that receives > the packet by looking up the destination IP address in its local table, and > sending it to the access point that currently has the destination IP > address. >
I'm not familiar with routing protocols. Do any of the current ones do this, or is this an idea for a new protocol? -Aaron
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