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Re: [homenet] New Version Notification for draft-barth-homenet-wifi-roaming-00.txt

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Mon, 30 November 2015 14:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] New Version Notification for draft-barth-homenet-wifi-roaming-00.txt
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On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, Dave Taht wrote:

> Well, in the two or more radio (2.4 and 5ghz) case, you can easily roam 
> between the two radios with many chipsets. Some chipsets only allow one 
> active radio at a time, however.

Does this actually work in real life? Considering the solutions I found 
doing my quick search, it seems the AP vendors are implementing all kinds 
of solutions to trick the client that it's just one single large network 
with a single AP, even though it's a lot of them.

For instance: 
https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/205144590-UniFi-What-is-Zero-Handoff-

So while I would prefer a solution in the end with make-before-break and 
seamless handover without breaking the IP layer at all, this seems to 
involve quite a lot of new functionality both from the Network (which is 
doable) and from the client (also doable, but a lot harder, especially 
within current charter).

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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