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List:       ipng
Subject:    Re: RFC6085 update to rfc2464bis - Ethernet or WiFi?
From:       Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-01-11 20:13:57
Message-ID: dfb8f759-28a7-4673-761f-903555c8de86 () gmail ! com
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On 12/01/2017 08:07, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 11 Jan 2017, at 20:00, Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > This is WiFi, it is not Ethernet.  It is not the same.  An IPv6-over-WiFi \
> > document remains to be written.
> 
> That's actually not true in real life.
> 
> "IPv6 over Ethernet" in reality is a shorthand for "IPv6 over 802.1 bridged links \
> that collectively try to look like Ethernet but don't always succeed very well".  \
> WiFi is part of that world.

Indeed. I don't care how it works under the covers: code that runs over Ethernet runs
identically over WiFi. OK, maybe some spectrum is wasted, but for most people most of \
the time that simply doesn't matter.

   Brian

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