All things related to multicast

[Joel Jaeggli <>]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Leonard Giuliano wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Kevin C. Almeroth wrote:
>
> -)
> -) The stumper is again switch support for snooping MLDv2 and of course
> -) host support.
> -)

You can or will be able to shortly be able to buy switches with mldv2 
support in them... the point is the switches currently in your network are 
never going to support it so it's at least one replacement cycle away. I 
would assert that having enough v6 multicast on your network that you need 
to worry about snooping would be a good problem to have... It's not one I 
currently face.

> I don't think the snooping issue is a problem specific to v6 SSM.  If a
> switch can't do MLDv2 snooping, there's a pretty good chance it can't do
> MLDv1 snooping either.
>
> Host support is definitely a problem for SSM, though.
>
> -) -Kevin
> -)

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