Hello,
We have actually designed a large-scale system making use of the M flag as
it was a large part of RFC 2462 and we were not aware that IETF would be
considering deprecating it. Please take this into consideration in your
discussions.
Regards,
Brian Russell
Systems Engineer
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RFC 2460 provides this note in the terminology section:
Note: it is possible, though unusual, for a device with multiple
interfaces to be configured to forward non-self-destined packets
arriving from some set (fewer than all) of its interfaces, and to
discard non-self-destined packets arr