<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Good example of the confusion. Wi-Fi uses something called "serial multicast" for reasons related to rate selection; but multicast is an addressing mode, so the correct term is "serial unicast."<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RB<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 26, 2019, at 2:45 PM, Joe Touch <<a href="mailto:touch@strayalpha.com" class="">touch@strayalpha.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Some people called this ‘serial multicast’, vs native. <br class=""><br class="">Joe<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 26, 2019, at 1:16 PM, Guy Almes <<a href="mailto:galmes@tamu.edu" class="">galmes@tamu.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""> If you do multicast at the network layer, you get IP multicast, Steve <br class="">Deering's thesis project that escaped from the lab and has challenged <br class="">network engineers ever since.<br class=""> But if you do multicast at the application layer, you get lots of <br class="">(IP) unicast traffic, but with some of the properties of IP multicast<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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