[156344] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big Temporary Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Sat Sep 15 22:44:26 2012
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:42:40 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <29035924.25034.1347758299003.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
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Jay Ashworth wrote:
> You're saying that *receiving* multicast streams over WLAN works poorly?
Multicast/broadcast over congested WLAN works poorly, because
there can be no ACK.
That is, multicast/broadcast packets lost by collisions are
never sent again.
Masataka Ohta
