Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-mboned-ieee802-mcast-problems-05.txt

I was hoping to hear that, even w/o the unicast conversion, since the router does not have to use a low speed to reach many receivers (of different signaling levels), it would not be problem.

Guess I was too naïve 😊

Thanks.

Jeffrey


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2019 4:17 PM
> To: Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [MBONED] I-D Action: draft-ietf-mboned-ieee802-mcast-
> problems-05.txt
> 
> 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]
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