Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-mboned-ieee802-mcast-problems-05.txt
Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Apr 2019 22:17:23 +0200 (CEST)
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| Organization | People's Front Against WWW |
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On Mon, 29 Apr 2019, Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang wrote: > I am also curious, in a home environment, if only one receiver joins a > particular multicast flow (e.g. one viewer for a multicast TV channel), > how much trouble would a typical consumer router run into if we turn on > multicast? >From my understanding most customer routers do not have the multicast->wifi-unicast conversion mechanism, so it'd start to transmit the multicast stream at low speeds without any retransmit mechanism, giving that receiver lots of packet loss for this multicast plus chewing up most of the airtime. So that's a bad idea... -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ MBONED mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mboned