On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
at layer 3, people will start building networks where wireless is used for transit.
People already do this, until they discover that their shiny new 1 gigabit/s Internet connection is now not fully usable to them because their wifi isn't fast enough and instead of the traditional case where the Internet connection is the bottleneck, now their wifi is the bottleneck. I've been in discussions with a substantial amount of people with this problem. Either they give up and downgrade their Internet connection speed (to save money), they make do with what they have and accept what's going on, or they start fixing their wifi so it gives better speed, by upgrading to newer equipment and/or doing cabling between their APs in case they need multiple.
All the solutions to the wifi speed problem I can see usually means to make each wifi base-station smaller, either by means of lower power, or higher frequencies. In order to connect these together to achieve good quality, you're going to need cables. 60GHz won't go through walls. It doesn't really go through anything, you need line of sight.
So my previous opinion stands, I think the homenet routing protocol should support ECMP on wired links that are between two directly connected devices with identical link speeds. I'm fine to leave the radio interface ECMP as a future research project.
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