> Op 12 aug. 2015, om 15:23 heeft Mikael Abrahamsson <swm...@swm.pp.se> het > volgende geschreven: > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Teco Boot wrote: > >> How works *seamless* WiFi handover with same SSID, with different IPv6 >> subnets? > > It doesn't work, regardless if IPv4 or IPv6 is used.
Right. > > We need to move away from hosts seeing the address as permanent. SHIM6 seemed > like a decent idea, but didn't pan out for several reasons. MPTCP will have a > rough time as well, we'll see how that will work out. Nice long-term goal. > > I myself believe in "temporal overlap", ie be connected to both networks for > some time, finish whatever you were doing (if you were downloading video > snippets for instance) and then start using the new connction. A lot of > short-lived traffic could be handled like that. However, this wouldn't solve > real time communictation, there the protocol itself would need to tell other > end to start using another address for continued communication. IEEE802.11 spec is otherwise. Unless dial NIC or tricks with sleep mode, a station is connected to a single AP. There is no "temporal overlap". And what is temporal? For me, it is walking thru my house with active voice call. Could be over an hour. Teco > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: swm...@swm.pp.se _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
