>On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:10:31  0300 Markku Savela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote.
>> From: Francis Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> Another detail: before doing DAD, the solicited group must be joined
>> and this is another cause of collisions when implementations are buggy
>> (i.e., no new report should be sent because the node is already a member
>> of the group).
>
>What report? Solicited node is LINKLOCAL group, there is no need to
>send any joins on those? Or is some weird multilink hack again
>breaking the basic assumptions about Link Local?

RFC 2710 requires that nodes listening to a multicast group of scope
2 or greater (excluding ALL-NODES) to participate in the MLD protocol.
It is intended to allow for proper behavior with the use of IGMP/MLD
snooping switches.

Brian
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