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Re: World IPv6 Only Day.


From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 09:55:25 -0700

yes

http://www.google.com/search?q=mld+snooping+switch

On Jun 9, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

On 9 jun 2011, at 6:36, Karl Auer wrote:

Well, a modern switch should work fine, even if not directly IPv6 aware,
but it won't understand multicast and will generally flood multicast
frames to all interfaces. So definitely stipulate IPv6 capability, even
for switches....

Are there any switches out there that do MLDP snooping to avoid flooding IPv6 multicasts?






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