On 2/29/2012 1:17 PM, Behcet Sarikaya wrote:
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Fernando Gont<[email protected]> wrote:
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.
This is true.
I think the main reason OpenBSD and NetBSD don't support SSM is
Apple's IPR claim. Without SSM support, there is little reason to
support MLDv2.
I'm a bit curious about the reason for the question. At least MLDv2
routers are supposed to support MLDv1 compatibility mode.
However, RFC 5790, on Lightweight IGMP/MLD makes it easy to support
SSM. I think there is open source support for 5790 somewhere.
What it does is basically removing exclude mode for a non-empty
source list. It is still a lot of work compared to IGMPv2/MLDv1.
Apart from hosts in general, I can imagine a lot of special purpose
devices that never needs SSM to only implement MLDv1.
Stig
Behcet
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