Re: network's architecture under IPv6
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:03:48PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:06:37PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> > Isn't neighbor discovery multicast, not broadcast, so it only goes to
> > some hosts on the subnet? A fairly small number of them?
>
> Yes, Neighbour and Router Discovery uses Multicast in a special multicast
> group partitioned by the last 32bits of the requested address. Unless you
> have clever switches, this only means the host stacks have less to process,
> still all the NIC get the multicast message.
Don't NICs with good multicast filtering solve this?
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
>
> Good description is here: http://www.ngnet.it/e/ipv6proto/ipv6-proto-6.php
I only skimmed this, sorry if something in there answers my question.
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