Hi, In particular this kind of messages can be useful for mld snooping switches.
Konstantin _____________________________________________________ Konstantin K. KABASSANOV Research and Development Engineer LIP6 Laboratory Pierre and Marie Curie University 8, rue du Capitaine Scott, 75015 Paris, France Phone: +33 (0) 1 44 27 71 26 Fax: +33 (0) 1 44 27 74 95 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.kabassanov.com ______________________________________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Siva Veerepalli > Sent: jeudi 27 f�vrier 2003 20:23 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Question on MLD > > RFC2710 (MLD) states that when a General Membership Query is received, a > node listening to the query sends a membership report for all multicast > addresses it is listening to, excluding the all-nodes link-local multicast > address and any multicast addresses of scope 0 (reserved) and 1 (node- > local). > > My question is, is the node required to send the membership report for > solicited-node multicast address as well? In general, since nodes do not > receive link-local scope multicast packets from out side the link, why is > it required for the nodes to report membership to the router for *any* > link-local scope multicast addresses? > > Thanks, > Siva > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
