From: "Guillermo Ibáñez" <gibanezfer@ya.com>
To: bridge@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Multicast
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:02:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42A8058C.2060408@ya.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050608093152.32e3c9c5@unknown-215.office.pdx.osdl.net>
Just an explanation to distinguish processing of layer 3 multicast
packets (by routers) from layer 2 multicast frames (by bridges). Due to
the fact that the multicast MAC addresses are not permitted in the
Ethernet frame as source addresses, multicast MAC addresses can not be
learnt by the bridges, so the processing of multicast addresses by
bridges consists in broadcasting, flooding frames in all but source
port, instead of forwarding them only by ports where these addresses
were learnt.
Excuse me if it sounds a bit "academic".
GI
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:43:46 +0200
>"Tomo Ceferin" <tomo@activetools.si> wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I checked archives but I haven't found this subject before.
>>
>>Does bridge support multicast or not? I checked the code and it would seem
>>that bridge will flood multicast frames to all but source port.
>>
>>Rgds, Tomo Ceferin
>>Active Tools
>>
>>
>
>Yes, that is what multicast is.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-09 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-08 7:43 [Bridge] Multicast Tomo Ceferin
2005-06-08 16:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-06-09 8:48 ` Tomo Ceferin
2005-06-10 20:14 ` Ted Deppner
2005-06-09 9:02 ` Guillermo Ibáñez [this message]
2005-06-09 14:33 ` Tomo Ceferin
2005-06-09 18:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-06-10 8:39 ` Tomo Ceferin
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