Let me clarify my comment. ff02::blah is a bad example for what I am asking. Will the 3G network support applications utilizing mcast? Will a host be able to join ff05::abcd and receive data on that group address? If that is supported, then MLD is needed.
Brian Brian Haberman wrote: > > Hesham, > > "Hesham Soliman (ERA)" wrote: > > > > incoming packet to ff02::blah > > | > > H2--------R------- H1 > > > > If only H2 joined, doyou assume that the router will > > send it to H1 as well? Why? > > Note H1 and H2 do not share the same link. > > Maybe I missed something here. R will send the packet addressed to > ff02::blah to whatever host it received the MLD Report message from > for ff02::blah. So, H2 would have to transmit an MLD Report to > R in order to receive the multicast packet. In traditional wired > p2p networks, MLD/IGMP are still used, why would they not be used > in a 3G p2p network? > > Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
