On 02/29/2012 11:38 AM, Simon Perreault wrote:
> On 2012-02-28 08:12, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>> I was wondering, if anybody had a rough idea how many MLDv1-only
>> listeners are still out there in the wild. My assumption by now is that
>> current code out there (thus not stuff that has been up and running and
>> never upgraded for the last 5 years orso ;) all supports MLDv2... or is
>> there a major platform which does not do MLDv2?
> 
> On the open-source side, I know of OpenBSD and NetBSD which are still
> MLDv1 only.

Even if they implemented MLDv2, I'd argue that the default should
probably be MLDv1 rather than MLDv2: unless non-local multicast is
employed, MLDv2 is unnecessarily complex if it's just for the purpose of
ND and the like.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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