I threw the initial thread off to my co-workers as we comprise
the IPv6 Group at our office... The one big difference you have to
remember with IPv6 multicast over IPv4 multicast is that IPv6 multicast
addresses just like any IPv6 unicast address has a scope... That said
you can have a multicast address that is node-local, link-local,
site-local and global[1].
You might also want to check out RFCs 2365[2], 3306[3], &
3307[4] which go over multicasting as well.
Jeremy
[1]http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2375.txt
[2]http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2365.txt
[3]http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3306.txt
[4]http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3307.txt
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 06:37:23AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> 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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