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Re: Big Temporary Networks


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:31:15 +0100

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.

Nick



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