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Re: World IPv6 Only Day.


From: Erik Bais <ebais () A2B-Internet com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 19:32:52 +0200

Hi Iljitsch,

The switches from Extreme Networks do MLD and MLD snooping, I know for sure on the x450's and up, probably below that 
line as well.

Erik Bais

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Op Jun 9, 2011 om 18:49 heeft Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com> het volgende geschreven:

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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