> On Apr 28, 2016, at 15:43 , Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> writes: > >> For discovery, multicast is unavoidable -- there's simply no way you're >> going to send a unicast to a node that you haven't discovered yet. > > Presumably the access point could transparently turn IP-level multicast > into a unicast frame to each associated station? Not sure how that would > work in an IBSS network, though... Does the driver (or mac80211 stack) > maintain a list of neighbours at the mac/phy level?
I believe the openwrt developers are thinking a long similar lines, see e.g. https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2015-June/033398.html Best Regards Sebastian > > -Toke > _______________________________________________ > Cerowrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
