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Title : Why Network-Layer Multicast is Not Always Efficient At Datalink Layer
Authors : Eric Vyncke
Pascal Thubert
Eric Levy-Abegnoli
Filename : draft-vyncke-6man-mcast-not-efficient-00.txt
Pages : 9
Date : 2014-02-06
Abstract:
Several IETF protocols (IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for example) rely on
IP multicast in the hope to be efficient with respect to available
bandwidth and to avoid generating interrupts in the network nodes.
On some datalink-layer network, for example IEEE 802.11 WiFi, this is
not the case because of some limitations in the services offered by
the datalink-layer network. This document lists and explains all the
potential issues when using network-layer multicast over some
datalink-layer networks.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vyncke-6man-mcast-not-efficient/
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vyncke-6man-mcast-not-efficient-00
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