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Re: IPv6 support by wifi systems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Tue Feb 12 15:41:05 2013

Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:40:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
To: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <1360701418.4340.114.camel@karl>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Karl Auer wrote:

> For example, multicast is used by ND, the IPv6 equivalent of ARP. MLD
> snooping means only a few hosts (typically only one, in fact) in the
> subnet see any given ND request. Without MLD snooping, every port in the
> subnet sees it. Or DHCPv6 - without MLD snooping, every port sees all
> client traffic for all DHCP requests; with MLD snooping only the
> routers/relays in the subnet see it. "See" with MLD snooping means "see
> it at all", not "see and ignore it" as in the broadcast world.

Oh really?  Exactly when during the ND process does a device send an MLD 
message that can be snooped?

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