On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 9:34 AM Dale W. Carder <dwcar...@es.net> wrote: > Are your links or hosts limited in some way or broadcast domains > of some unreasonable size? Most of the competent switching or > managed wireless products will snoop or otherwise handle this > overhead in a sane manner. Otherwise this at best would seem to > be an over-optimization. > > From my days on a giant campus network the current pps rate of MLD > chatter was much lower than the IPX/SAP broadcasts we had from > 20-25 yrs earlier.
Hi Dale, Actually, I'm doing station to station encryption with macsec using multiple SCIs at each station so there's a magnification effect of encrypted multicast packets that the switch can't snoop even if it wanted to -- all the intermediate equipment sees is an opaque ethernet frame with the broadcast flag set. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/