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Re: [homenet] wifi broadcast domain - Mikael Abrahamsson's comments

Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> Wed, 03 April 2019 15:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] wifi broadcast domain - Mikael Abrahamsson's comments
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> If there is a more complex HNCP network, then we could probably simulate
> the L2 scenario with VXLAN, configured by HNCP.

If memory serves, VXLAN requires support for multicast, which HNCP+Babel
doesn't provide.  There's a set of IBM (?) extensions to VXLAN that avoid
the use of multicast, I'm not a fan.

-- Juliusz

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