Re: network's architecture under IPv6
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:56:57PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote:
> > 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
Yes, but the network is still loaded.
Greetings
Bernd
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