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Re: Big Temporary Networks
From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:50:53 -0400
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org> wrote:
On 18/09/2012 21:24, William Herrin wrote:IPv6 falls down compared to IPv4 on wifi networks when it responds to a router solicitation with a multicast (instead of unicast) router advertisement.You mean it has one extra potential failure mode in situations where radio retransmission doesn't deal with the packet loss - which will cause RA to retry. "Fall down" is a slight overstatement.
Potayto, potahto. Like I said, I have no interest in defending IPv6. But I'm very interested in how to implement an IPv6 network that's as or more reliable than the equivalent IPv4 network. That makes me interested in the faults which get in the way. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside com bill () herrin us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
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- Re: Big Temporary Networks, (continued)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Jay Ashworth (Sep 16)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Masataka Ohta (Sep 16)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Nick Hilliard (Sep 16)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Masataka Ohta (Sep 16)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Nick Hilliard (Sep 17)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Masataka Ohta (Sep 17)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks William Herrin (Sep 17)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Masataka Ohta (Sep 18)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks William Herrin (Sep 18)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Nick Hilliard (Sep 18)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks William Herrin (Sep 18)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Seth Mos (Sep 19)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Masataka Ohta (Sep 19)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Sean Harlow (Sep 19)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Masataka Ohta (Sep 19)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 19)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Masataka Ohta (Sep 19)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks TJ (Sep 19)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Masataka Ohta (Sep 19)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks William Herrin (Sep 19)
- Re: Big Temporary Networks Masataka Ohta (Sep 19)