Hello,
Anyone proposed until now to update RFC2464 "IPv6 over Ethernet Networks"? If not, I'd like to propose updating the following text:
An IPv6 packet with a multicast destination address DST, consisting of the sixteen octets DST[1] through DST[16], is transmitted to the Ethernet multicast address whose first two octets are the value 3333 hexadecimal and whose last four octets are the last four octets of DST.
Not all Ethernet links/cards/drivers/firmware support this 3333 value, nor even Ethernet multicast groups. Those who don't will work fine with v4 (6 times ff) but not with v6. So some relaxing text saying "either 33:33:xx:xx:xx:xx or ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff" may help.
I don't understand why ND is so tight to the Ethernet multicast in the first place, but anyways.
How should I go about it?
Thanks,
Alex
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