[pilc] RE: Link-layer Triggers Protocol draft

From: Ali Mohammed-MALI1 (MALI1@motorola.com)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 19:16:10 EDT

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    Hi Alper,

    >The generator of the L2 trigger cannot assess whether this is interesting
    >or not. It's up-to the consumer of the trigger to assess this. You are
    >right,
    >not all L2 events result in a L3 event. But this is not up-to the servers
    >to decide...

    The only information that the clients get as part of the triggers is the l2 address of the "other end". How can they use this information to make sure it is an L3 event?. The host would probably need some mapping(l2-l3) or protocol to find out if this is a l3 event.

    >In either case, L2 address is the address of the "other end" of the link.
    >For example, if trigger is received by the access router, the "other end"
    >of the link is "access device" of the wireless client.

    I understand the client aspect, how about the server?. How is it supposed to know it is servicing a host client or access router client?. This would entail that we have a version of host server and access router server since the servers need to provide different information in the trigger data.

    Mohammed

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