[141598] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: World IPv6 Only Day.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Thu Jun 9 12:50:14 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <1307594175.3760.44.camel@karl>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:49:57 +0200
To: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9 jun 2011, at 6:36, Karl Auer wrote:
> Well, a modern switch should work fine, even if not directly IPv6 =
aware,
> but it won't understand multicast and will generally flood multicast
> frames to all interfaces. So definitely stipulate IPv6 capability, =
even
> for switches....
Are there any switches out there that do MLDP snooping to avoid flooding =
IPv6 multicasts?
