> On 20.2.2015, at 15.22, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Back to the subject: What are the requirements of a high performance WiFi 
>> home network to the homenet routing protocol? I guess we don't know.
> Within the current framework to solve this problem with what exists today 
> when it comes to clients, I would say we need either:
> 
> 1. HNCP helps set up an overlay L2 tunnel infrastructure connecting all the 
> APs using the same SSID, so the SSID can have the same L2 domain. This would 
> probably mean we want to increase MTU on the physical links to avoid 
> fragmentation. Messy. Possibly we could advertise lower MTU on the wifi 
> network to minimize fragmentation if we don't raise MTU.
> 
> 2. We set up some kind of L2 switching domain between the APs. This would 
> require VLAN support in the HGWs, and something to set this up with loop 
> avoidance etc. Oh oh oh, we could use IEEE 802.1aq that already uses ISIS as 
> control plane, that way we could possibly run the same IGP for both L2 and 
> L3. Interconnecting APs over wifi seems weird though. Oh, and messy sounds 
> like an understatement.
> 
> Frankly, I don't know how to solve this without a lot of complication.
> 
> We need clients to be able to change IPv6 addresses without losing existing 
> connections. SHIM6 anyone? MP-TCP? Asking IEEE to make 802.11 keep two 
> connections at once and inform the application that one address is going away 
> soon so it can do its thing to try to handle this?

What if clients do not need to change addresses? In 2 words: Route /128s.

Two ways to do it:
- have clients talk stub RP + stub HNCP, be done with it
- have first-hop router do proxying for them by advertising the /128s only when 
they are connected to it (may have issues with e.g. clients assuming /64, but 
nothing a redirect could not fix, hopefully)

This L3(ish) solution actually works for all apps, unlike L4+ solutions some 
people advocated.

Cheers,

-Markus
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