>-----Original Message----- >From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:46 AM >To: Templin, Fred L >Cc: Routing Research Group >Subject: Re: [RRG] Consensus check: renumbering - missing dimension > >On 26 aug 2008, at 17:30, Templin, Fred L wrote: > >> clients can contact relays via link-local >> multicast. > >That is exactly the problem. On 802.11 networks multicasts are >sent at >a very low speed for compatibility and because there are no ACKs for >multicasts, so they use up a lot of airtime/bandwidth. > >The hack that I was talking about would be for accesspoints to not >repeat multicasts from clients on the wireless network. (I'm guessing >this would make the network at IETF meetings a lot faster during >plenaries.)
Who says the client has to contact the relay over an 802.11 network? Who says the client even has to reside on a different physical platform than the relay? AFAICT, an internal virtual link can service a client's requests through relay just the same as for an external physical link. Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >-- >to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the >word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. >archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg > -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
