All things related to multicast

[debbie fligor <>]

For anyone else that doesn't have an Apple SE handy, mine suggested  
this:

> The best thing to do is to file a new bug report at http://bugreport.apple.com 
> .  It will be set as a duplicate, but that becomes really obvious in  
> the bug report.
>
> FWIW, [my bug report] it's set to a P1, but for the Next Major OS  
> (after the one we're currently working on, that is :-()  There are  
> currently 4 duplicates and three people have chimed in with impact  
> information.
On May 28, 2008, at 10:21, debbie fligor wrote:

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