Returning to this.. > From: Francis Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > => from RFC 2710: > > MLD messages ARE sent for multicast addresses whose scope is 2 > (link-local), including Solicited-Node multicast addresses [ADDR- > ARCH], except for the link-scope, all-nodes address (FF02::1). > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > PS: the reason is that layer-2 devices need to know if they can > remove multicast packets to nodes which are not listening for them > (cf draft-ietf-magma-snoop-02.txt).
In my view this is crap! Why must IP layer bend over so much for some kludgy layer-2 devices? If there are such devices, they could quite easily detect the equivalent of solicited node participants from the normal ND traffic! I'm going to ingore RFC 2710 on this point. I do not send MLD for link local multicast groups. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
