On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:35:05PM -0000, Ramakrishnan wrote: > Why MLD ( Multicast Listener Discovery) message are sent for Sloicited-Node > multicast address ?
Intelligent link-layer devices like Ethernet switches may snoop the MLD packets to learn what multicast addresses each device is listening to. In the absence of MLD packets, switches would need to flood all multicast packets to the whole network, because there is no way of knowing which devices want which packets. -Nathan -- +-------------------+---------------------+------------------------+ | Nathan Lutchansky | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Lithium Technologies | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's | | business on earth... I like a state of continual becoming, | | with a goal in front and not behind. - George Bernard Shaw | +------------------------------------------------------------------+
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