Re: [babel] BABEL / MANET / ROLL and multicast

Hi Henning,

Thanks for your expression of interest.

IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) Mesh supports multicast and I could do a brief
presentation on how that works.

Thanks,
Donald
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On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 5:38 AM Henning Rogge <hrogge@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think this is an interesting idea... multicast forwarding in mesh
> networks has always been a pain, especially in heterogeneous networks.
> I don't think I have ever seen a proposal that could work well enough
> and there is also the problem that the Linux kernel multicast
> forwarding capability is not that useful for mesh networks.
>
> Henning Rogge
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 5:15 AM Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > During the last IETF meeting I spoke with the Routing Area ADs and there
> was a suggestion that we might look into having a joint BABEL / MANET /
> ROLL WG meeting on the topic of multicast. All three Working Groups, BABEL,
> MANET, and ROLL, have considered multicast but not made much progress in
> that direction.
> >
> > If there is interest in this, I can contact the chairs of MANET and ROLL
> to see about scheduling a joint session for the next IETF meeting which
> will be July 25-29. (That meeting will be in Philadelphia but as usual,
> remote participation will be reasonably convenient.) Of course, if the WGs
> can't come up with a reasonable number of presentations, no joint meeting
> would be held.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Donald
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