> 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.

And by the way I view the fact that the IBoE spec does not say anything
at all about how to map MGIDs to Ethernet addresses as another serious
shortcoming of the spec.

 - R.
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