In article <[email protected]>,
David Malone <[email protected]> wrote:
>[email protected] (Rod Dorman) writes:
>
>>Isn't 802.11 a physical layer specification? Why would it be defining
>>transport layer behaviour?
>
>No - it's a MAC and PHY layer. It doesn't care about TCP or UDP,
>only MAC layer things like unicast and multicast, and the required
>management/control glue to make it all work. Have a look at section
>6.1.1.3, which notes that most unicast traffic is ACKed, but broadcast
>and multicast is not. Section 9 describes a good bit of the MAC,
>and 9.2.8 the ACKing procedure.
But that is discussing MAC level acks and retransmits.
I dont see anything to support the claim that "UDP is treated as
guaranteed by WiFi"
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-- Rod --
rodd(at)polylogics(dot)com
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