[153536] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 /64 links (was Re: ipv6 book recommendations?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auer)
Thu Jun 7 22:01:55 2012
From: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120608010806.4D3CF215D358@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:01:04 +1000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 11:08 +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > This is pretty much the *point* of using multicast instead of
> broadcast.
>
> The point of multicast is be able to reject traffic sooner rather
> than later.
Well - yes - and my description was of how, when properly configured and
on the right hardware, unwanted multicast IPv6 packets do not even reach
the NIC.
Regards, K.
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