On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 08:40:52AM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> why does IPv6 rely on multicast?
> 
> multicast is never going to work that well on a busy wireless
> network, especially one that's encrypted with a different key to
> each station.

It relies on multicast the same way IPv4 relies on broadcast
(ARP, DHCP). If you like broadcast better than multicast, you're
free to simply treat it as such.

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