Re: [v6ops] multicast over wifi discussion list

Francis Dupont <Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr> Thu, 20 July 2017 10:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] multicast over wifi discussion list
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I agree I experimented poor delivery of multicast ND messages using
IPv6 over 802.11. And it is a shame as multicast is builtin in L1.
Unfortunately I can't see an easy solution, both on the IPv6 side
which really requires it, or on the WiFi side which has its own
reasons to be very bad on it... Perhaps it is why the ML stales?

Regards

Francis.Dupont@fdupont.fr

PS: I remember well to have missed the first RA for years!
(I can understand from time to time but here probability of loss was one).