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Re: World IPv6 Only Day.


From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:49:57 +0200

On 9 jun 2011, at 6:36, Karl Auer wrote:

Well, a modern switch should work fine, even if not directly IPv6 aware,
but it won't understand multicast and will generally flood multicast
frames to all interfaces. So definitely stipulate IPv6 capability, even
for switches....

Are there any switches out there that do MLDP snooping to avoid flooding IPv6 multicasts?



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