[156360] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big Temporary Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Sun Sep 16 14:32:51 2012
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:30:53 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Well, yes, but that wasn't what Bill was talking about. He was talking about
> AP's being "nice" to associated clients who are in powersave mode, at the
> expensive of all the other connected clients, by buffering multicast packets
> until one or more DTIM frames are sent.
I know. But, there are other reasons why multicast over WLAN
behaves poorly.
Thus, protocols heavily depending on broadcast/multicast, such
as ND, will suffer.
Masataka Ohta
