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[debbie fligor <>]

In discussion with my Apple SE this morning, it looks like IGMPv3 may  
not even be in the next major OS release (10.6 I assume)  -- the main  
reason he can figure out looking at the bug report he filed for me is  
that in the multiple years that bug has been open, only 2 or 3 people  
have chimed in that it was important for them.

Apparently which things like this get implemented is often determined  
by user request/industry need. So if you would like to see it, contact  
your Apple SE and tell them you want it and why you need it and how  
important it is for you.

Even if I didn't want to test switches with Macs, if we want to go to  
IGMPv3 on our networks, we need all the clients on a given net playing  
with the same IGMP level, unless I misunderstand how the backwards  
compatibility works.


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-debbie
Debbie Fligor, n9dn       Network Engineer, CITES, Univ. of Il
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