Re: [Int-area] IPv6 ND applicability in draft-nachum-sarp-03

2012-11-20 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Linda, On 11/19/2012 07:11 PM, Linda Dunbar wrote: Suresh, -Original Message- Because it is :-). As an example, if you take an fat tree architecture, the number of access switch ports on a subnet is not directly related to the number of ports on the L3 gateway that are on

Re: [Int-area] IPv6 ND applicability in draft-nachum-sarp-03

2012-11-20 Thread Linda Dunbar
Suresh, Are you saying that router has to send out MLD Query for all potential ND multicast addresses and keep up state for listeners for all those multicast addresses? There could be millions of Solicited-Node multicast addresses. That is a lot of processing on routers. Linda

Re: [Int-area] IPv6 ND applicability in draft-nachum-sarp-03

2012-11-20 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Linda, On 11/20/2012 01:05 PM, Linda Dunbar wrote: Suresh, Are you saying that router has to send out MLD Query for all potential ND multicast addresses and keep up state for listeners for all those multicast addresses? Nope. Only for those solicited node multicast groups that have