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RFC 6085
Title: Address Mapping of IPv6 Multicast
Packets on Ethernet
Author: S. Gundavelli, M. Townsley,
O. Troan, W. Dec
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: January 2011
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Pages: 3
Characters: 4968
Updates: RFC2464
I-D Tag: draft-gundavelli-v6ops-l2-unicast-06.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6085.txt
When transmitting an IPv6 packet with a multicast destination
address, the IPv6 destination address is mapped to an Ethernet
link-layer multicast address. This document clarifies that a mapping of
an IPv6 packet with a multicast destination address may in some
circumstances map to an Ethernet link-layer unicast address.
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