On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 14:13 +0100, Alexander Morlang wrote:
> 
> Bernd Petrovitsch schrieb:
> > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 23:01 +0100, Lorenz Schori wrote:
> > [....]
> >> i'm no wds expert either but if i recall it correctly the wds is sort  
> >> of a really dumb system. the algorithm for a wds node is something  
> >> like "retransmit everything i receive except the stuff i sent  
> >> already". this might be feasible for broadcasting but an olsr-network  
> > 
> > Sounds like the behaviour of a normal switch/bridge in the cable world.
> > Do the run also STP to avoid loops?
> 
> that is the way how wds ist abused in most of the cases, bridging with stp.
> but this is just one (bad) way of using it.

Of course.
But is is already implemented and works apparently good enough that
people can sell it.
And I fear that I can reproduce "their" internal talk:
Techie: But that doesn't scale and works bad if you have more than 3
APs.
Sales: No one has more than 3 APs at home. Ship it.

SCNR,
	Bernd
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