Re: [manet] Re: [Manet-dt] Review Request

A network with never a call to unicast routing? Do you have an example 
of this?

Philippe

Justin Dean a écrit :
> SMF is designed such that is may run in a stand alone mode where only
> multicast routing is required or it can be run alongside a unicast protocol
> (either sharing information or not).  In the past there have been some
> implementations of OLSR which allow for encapsulating packets and using the
> s-mpr forwarding tree to disiminate the packets to all nodes in the network.
> This solution works for some networks but was tied to the running of OLSR.
> SMF takes away that requirement and allows for multicast routing which can
> be independent of what unicast routing protocol may or may not be running on
> the network.  
> 
> One application which may help understand the usage might be emergancy
> response teams using wireless VIP to communicate with others who are close
> without any specific need for point to point communication.
> 
> Justin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe Jacquet [mailto:philippe.jacquet@inria.fr] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 4:47 PM
> Cc: 'manet'; manet-dt@ietf.org
> Subject: [manet] Re: [Manet-dt] Review Request
> 
> Hello,
> 
> About SMF, I am asking some questions for clarification
> 
> I don't understand very well the purpose of the protocol. Maybe this is
> because I don't have a clear view of its application context.
> 
> Is SMF intended to be the only routing protocol running in a network or will
> it run together with a unicast protocol?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Philippe
> 
> _______________________________________________
> manet mailing list
> manet@ietf.org
> https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/manet
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Manet-dt mailing list
> Manet-dt@ietf.org
> https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/manet-dt
> 
> 

_______________________________________________
Manet-dt mailing list
Manet-dt@ietf.org
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/manet-dt