On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> I've searched through "802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide" 
> and although it doesn't say so specifically, it's pretty clear that 
> broadcasts and multicasts are treated the same in 802.11. This means no 
> acknowledgments and no fragmentation. Which in turn means that 
> broad/multicast packets are delivered less reliably than unicast 
> packets. (So this goes for IPv4 ARP too.)

Good.  Maybe Masataka can given an exact reference to the spec (and
section or page) which says that multicast packets are acknowledged at
the link layer.

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