Re: When IBoE will be merged to upstream?

Roland Dreier
2010-07-15T17:21:14Z

> > I agree -- the current spec is rather broken for multicast.
> > Choosing a different ethertype and then saying that all
> > switches will just flood multicast traffic is half-baked at best.

> It is a realistic approach. Do you claim that there are switches that will not forward the packets?

No, I think all switches will flood unknown multicast packets. But
there is a reason that IGMP snooping was invented -- it is inefficient
(to say the least) to flood all multicast traffic.

- R.
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