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Re: RFC6085 update to rfc2464bis - Ethernet or WiFi?

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 11 January 2017 19:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: RFC6085 update to rfc2464bis - Ethernet or WiFi?
From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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On 11 Jan 2017, at 20:00, Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> wrote:
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> This is WiFi, it is not Ethernet.  It is not the same.  An IPv6-over-WiFi document remains to be written.

That’s actually not true in real life.

“IPv6 over Ethernet” in reality is a shorthand for “IPv6 over 802.1 bridged links that collectively try to look like Ethernet but don’t always succeed very well”.  WiFi is part of that world.

Grüße, Carsten

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