On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:53:05PM -0500, Suresh Krishnan wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Now, who can tell if multicast echo request is the primary > >multicast debugging mechanism or not ?? > > Since there is no alternate mechanism, this has become the primary and > preferred multicast debugging mechanism. If some mechanism is proposed > which is better and is less liable to be misused, it will become the > primary mechanism. The KAME project was working on a multicast traceroute > tool for IPv6 a while ago. I have not personally used it. Probably > Jinmei can comment further on this.
Especially pinging ff02::1 is often used not just for debugging multicast, but also for other debugging. So I think this is useful, even if some other multicast debugging mechanisms are introduced. Stig -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
