>> When performance in dual stack networks with multiple WiFi AP's in homes >> suffers from homenet protocols, this WG produces dead protocols.
> Why would homenet cause wifi APs to suffer more than they do today? I think Teco was reacting to the suggestion that we perform wifi-wifi bridging at a larger scale that is done today. We'd need to actually try it out and perform some serious measurements in order to be sure (no, I'm not volunteering), but I'd expect it to suck, for at least the following reasons: 1. 802.11 bridging is weird, there are some restrictions on the possible topologies (but I don't recall the exact details). 2. I'd expect broadcast/multicast to be fun, especially if the different APs are set up to interfere. 3. Things like TRILL aside, bridging performs spanning tree routing, so unless you design your topology carefully, you have a good chance of pushing all of your traffic through a slow link. Never mind avoiding self-interference. I've already expressed my opinion (sometimes way too strongly, sorry Ted) that I'm opposed to reliance on L2 bridging until somebody shows how it can be made to work with good performance in a hybrid network. The 802.11s experience doesn't encourage us to be optimistic. -- Juliusz _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
