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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 13:49 UTC

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On Thu, 26 Nov 2015, Michael Thomas wrote:

> Even if it's a 1/2 second, the l2 handover is still far too long for, 
> say, real time flows. Isn't this why you want to do make-before-break if 
> at all possible? at that point, time-to-flow is less of an issue, right?

I wasn't even aware that 802.11 can do make-before-break? A quick search 
seems to indicate that 802.11 roaming is strictly break-before-make?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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