Re: WLAN (was Re: IPv6 Host Configuration of Recursive DNS Server)

[Masataka Ohta <mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

Erik Nordmark;

> In this mode the hosts would send all packets to a default router
> and the router has the option to redirect the host to the on-link link-layer 
> address. Thus the only nodes multicasting NS messages would be the routers.

NS with link multicast over congested WLAN is a lot less reliable
than unicast one and has little chance to be received by its target.

						Masataka Ohta

PS

I'm not a member of ipv6 ML.


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