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Re: IPv6 support by wifi systems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Tue Feb 12 16:30:10 2013

Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:29:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
To: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <1360703195.4340.118.camel@karl>
Cc: NANOG List <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Karl Auer wrote:

> The switch then knows what listeners are where, so when for example an 
> NS is sent to the solicited node multicast address of a target during 
> ND, the switch can send it only to those hosts it knows are listeners on 
> that group.

Okay, so then to answer my own question from earlier, the answer is 
actually that an MLD is sent when an interface configures a new address to 
join the appropriate solicited node multicast group.  It seems that, then, 
MLD snooping is valuable as it will prevent DAD and other ND traffic from 
using bandwidth towards hosts not in that group.

Other than solicited node multicast, is MLD used anywhere else in a 
network that does not have layer 3 multicast enabled on a router?

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