Salut/avahi/meshview issues

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:37:24AM -0200, Ricardo Carrano wrote:
> Sjoerd,
> 
> Could you please develop this? What do you mean by "wireless firmware not
> being good enough to do actual multicast routing."?

Not good enough might be a bit harsh. What i mean is that as far as i know it
doesn't implement any mesh multicast routing protocols. MAODV is a well-known
example of a mesh multicast routing protocols and there are a whole bunch more.
Wikipedia has a whole list[0] and if you look a bit into the research on
MANET's a bit you'll probably find those and a whole lot more.

If it would implement one of those, the point at which the network starts
melting because of MDNS traffic should be a lot higher then it is now.
Especially if you have a reasonably dense network, like say inside one school.

  Sjoerd
0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ad-hoc_routing_protocols#Multicast_Routing
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