On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Fernando Gont <fg...@si6networks.com> wrote: > On 02/29/2012 11:38 AM, Simon Perreault wrote: >> On 2012-02-28 08:12, Jeroen Massar wrote: >>> I was wondering, if anybody had a rough idea how many MLDv1-only >>> listeners are still out there in the wild. My assumption by now is that >>> current code out there (thus not stuff that has been up and running and >>> never upgraded for the last 5 years orso ;) all supports MLDv2... or is >>> there a major platform which does not do MLDv2? >> >> On the open-source side, I know of OpenBSD and NetBSD which are still >> MLDv1 only. > > Even if they implemented MLDv2, I'd argue that the default should > probably be MLDv1 rather than MLDv2: unless non-local multicast is > employed, MLDv2 is unnecessarily complex if it's just for the purpose of > ND and the like.
This is true. However, RFC 5790, on Lightweight IGMP/MLD makes it easy to support SSM. I think there is open source support for 5790 somewhere. Behcet -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
