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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.

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