[156463] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big Temporary Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Tue Sep 18 16:32:02 2012
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:31:15 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 18/09/2012 21:24, William Herrin wrote:
> IPv6 falls down compared to IPv4 on wifi networks when it responds to a
> router solicitation with a multicast (instead of unicast) router
> advertisement.
You mean it has one extra potential failure mode in situations where radio
retransmission doesn't deal with the packet loss - which will cause RA to
retry. "Fall down" is a slight overstatement.
Nick
