>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Elliott <[email protected]> writes:
Robert> Why a wireless access point at the pool has to also be a
Robert> router ? Isn't it sufficient to extend one or more layer 2
Robert> to it ?
>> It's not much of an access point if it doesn't have a second
>> interface, is it? If it's out at the pool, and it has no wired
>> layer2, then it might well have a second radio (or a second
>> ESSID), to relay. But, it might also be connected to the wired
>> network in the pool house.
Chris> Bridging works fine between 802.11 and 802.1--or another
Chris> 802.11 link. No routing required.
Chris> It works for the IETF meeting networks and pretty much how
Chris> all Enterprise gear is setup.
Chris, I've helped out at the IETF NOC a number of years ago.
I know lots about the things you do to make the IETF network just work,
mostly when I encounter other networks/conferences where things rarely
work.
Do you think that the average home user knows how to turn off multicast,
or even why they should? And, once they do that, do they know why
their service discovery protocols now fail?
Jim Gettys has repeated many times that multicast on wireless occurs at
much lower data rates (1Mb/s on links that otherwise do 100Mb/s).
Others have said that some access points turn multicast into unicast
frames, but I've not experienced this.
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