[159953] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TJ)
Tue Jan 29 15:09:56 2013
In-Reply-To: <1359454077.20278.3.camel@karl>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:04:57 -0500
From: TJ <trejrco@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: trejrco@gmail.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Also, if a switch does not do MLD snooping, it will flood multicast to
> all ports. You lose one of the major benefits of IPv6 multicast - less
> admin traffic.
Agreed; but just to be fair: there is still a difference between
multicast being flodded everywhere and boradcast being flooded
everywhere ... L2 interrupt vs. L2+L3 interrupt; bigger difference
than it sounds ;).
/TJ
