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Re: Big Temporary Networks


From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:30:53 +0900

Jay Ashworth wrote:

Well, yes, but that wasn't what Bill was talking about.  He was talking about
AP's being "nice" to associated clients who are in powersave mode, at the
expensive of all the other connected clients, by buffering multicast packets
until one or more DTIM frames are sent.

I know. But, there are other reasons why multicast over WLAN
behaves poorly.

Thus, protocols heavily depending on broadcast/multicast, such
as ND, will suffer.

                                                Masataka Ohta


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