> > I agree -- the current spec is rather broken for multicast. > > Choosing a different ethertype and then saying that all > > switches will just flood multicast traffic is half-baked at best.
> It is a realistic approach. Do you claim that there are switches that will > not forward the packets? No, I think all switches will flood unknown multicast packets. But there is a reason that IGMP snooping was invented -- it is inefficient (to say the least) to flood all multicast traffic. - R. -- Roland Dreier <[email protected]> || For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/index.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
