Sounds about right ….. there’s a lot of shit routers on the market more than ever, especially with IPv6 stuff unfortunately …
We just finished an internal study of several different common household routers and how they handle IPv6 – was a disappointing set of results. Anybody can say “IPv6 compatible” etc for marketing … we tested if they can actually function properly without breaking… From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ty Featherling Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 1:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] IPv6 traffic to ff02::1:2 Found the offending customer and looking at their radio I can see the actual traffic is about 5Mbps worth but the traffic shaping knocks it down to 1.5 before it reaches our network. Makes me think this is more like a malfunctioning router than a feature. -Ty -Ty On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Ty Featherling <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: 1 layer 2 network per tower. All APs and CPE bridged to that one broadcast domain. -Ty -Ty On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Cassidy B. Larson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: How big is your layer2 network? Ideally, with multicast, your switch should only be sending it to the hosts that subscribe to that multicast IP. > On Feb 17, 2016, at 10:54 AM, Ty Featherling <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > So it's DHCPv6 discovery? Why the hell so much traffic then? If I can find > the source radio I will definitely turn off multicast. Good idea. >
