On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Alia Atlas <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok. Let me poke a bit more. Is it safe to use parallel wireless links > between > two routers A and B? Consider that there's a square topology, as below, > where E<->F and > D<->E are both wireless, and links have the same metric. Can C safely send > traffic > to reach F via both D and E? Can F safely send traffic to reach C via both > D and E? > How is this case different than if C were split into a C1 and a C2 so that > F-E-C1 and F-D-C2? > > [ C ]---------[ D ] > | | w > | | > [ E ] ---w--- [ F ] > > Basically, I'm trying to understand the restrictions.
Could be, but not necessarily... wireless is always a "shared broadcast" medium... if any of the links between two routers use the same frequency, they would interfere with each other. Its more a matter of position and frequencies than interfaces. Oh, depending on the hardware even a different frequency would not give you a perfect separation... the filters of wifi cards are often for the whole band, so that you get some amount of interference between all 2.4 GHz (or 5 GHz) channels. But that depends on the hardware and on the antenna. Henning Rogge _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
