[AG-TECH] AG IPv6 support

Tim Chown tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Mar 4 16:19:25 CST 2004


On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:55:43AM -0600, Bill Nickless wrote:
> 
> I fear that we won't see a forklift upgrade of all IEEE 802.1 bridges, to 
> devices complex enough to interpret IPv6 MLDv2 packets at line rate, 
> anytime soon.  That will be required to avoid flooding the rather large 
> IEEE 802.1 networks in production today.

That's a good point.

Out of curiosity, how common is it for such devices do IPv4 IGMP snooping now?

Tim




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