Greg Daley wrote:
> Hi Pascal,
>
> I think we're straying from the original topic...
I think that infrastructure WLAN is point (not all statsions but
only the base station) to multipoint one.
Anyway, back to the original topic, how do you think IPv6 hosts
should be configured with DNS server addresses?
I think you and Pascal are saying it's not ND but PPP. Right?
Masataka Ohta
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pascal Thubert (pthubert)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Friday, June 11, 2004 11:24 pm
> Subject: RE: WLAN (was Re: IPv6 Host Configuration of Recursive DNS
> Server)
>
>
>>Interestingly, part of this pain comes from the decision to provide
>>Ethernet emulation for 802.11, while some practical use cases do not
>>actually require a broadcast medium.
>>
>>In particular, in the case of public access points, the desired effect
>>is a point to point connectivity with the access point; seems that
>>a PPP
>>support over the Wireless MAC layer would have done the trick
>>perfectly.For MIPv6, though, there's also the pain that IPv6CP
>>would not provide
>>an IPv6 address to the mobile device anyway.
>>
>>But all this can be worked out :)
>
>
> Indeed, with a new 'prefix' configuration option for
> IPv6CP, would work OK.
>
> This would result in an extra round trip for nodes
> which didn't support it ( a configure reject/
> configure request pair ), but it would be
> backward compatible.
>
> Nodes which didn't support it would just send an
> RS anyway...
>
> No more nasty multicast at the link-layer :)
>
> Actally I like multicast, but for anything less common
> than television, optimization of the wireless link for
> single users per stream may take precedence.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
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