Thread-index: AcbBCbjshBpLx5nxQMenxrx8OCQtegAM6B7wABcBNzA= Thanks ever for your reply.So as you said, the multicast source should send multicast packets continuously so that the listeners could receive packets at any time. There is a delay between the MLD report and the first arrived multicast packet.
Jason > -----Original Message----- > From: Manfredi, Albert E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:08 PM > To: Jason Wang; [email protected] > Subject: RE: A question about MLD > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jason Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:58 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: A question about MLD > > > > Hi,folks. > > > > I have a question about MLD protocol. The router sends a > query message > > to find if there are any nodes are concerned about particular > > multicast group, then a node will send a response to show it's > > interest to a multicast group. > > The router will last know this. But for the node,how could > it ensure > > it has joined into a certain multicast group? > > As in IGMP, the listener knows because it begins receiving > the multicast packets. > > Bert > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
