On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 03:33:59PM +0200, Markku Savela wrote: > > I was countered that these MLD's were needed for some "intelligent" > bridges to get neighbor discovery work. My view was that such layer 2 > sniffing devices should not generate requirements to IP layer, and all > information for them would have been available from the ND messages > anyway (now the join to solicited address group goes back-to-back with > duplicate address test -- same info in both packets essentially). > > But, I was "shouted" down, so I don't oppose it either.
I certainly have some sympthy with that view, but also as a site with multiple IPv6 multicast video sources we do appreciate the functionality that MLD snooping offers us. We'd also be quite happy to see other IPv6-specific snooping, e.g. adding RA snooping could be quite useful. Not trying to reignite a debate, just saying it's useful operationally. -- Tim -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
