On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Kelvin Edmison <kelvin@edmison.net> wrote:
>> I've been experimenting with two WNDR3800s and meshing, and I'm starting to
>> wonder if meshing is the right answer for a typical residential user who
>> needs multiple APs.
>
> Well, an alternative is to bridge or use WDS.

Ok, I'll do that. I appreciate the logic behind keeping 2.4 and 5 separate from each other, so I'm considering vlan-based back-haul from the APs to the main router rather than reverting to a completely flat address scheme.

> stuart cheshire is starting up a project to make dns-sd with a hybrid
> proxy work right, so we can git rid of the klugey multicast forwarding
> causing this problem (on WAY more networks than just ceros, this is a
> problem on many campus's worldwide) and actually use the defined
> standard for dealing with multiple mdns subnets.
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-mdnsext-hybrid-02
>
> some code already exists as fallout of the homenet wg and was
> demonstrated at ietf. It works...
>
> It will be a huge relief to have this problem resolved sometime in the
> near future. developers wanted!

Awesome! I would be happy to try to contribute. The build instructions I've found on bufferbloat.net seem to be out of date; is there a more recent description of how to get started?

Kelvin