RE: When IBoE will be merged to upstream?

Alex Rosenbaum
2010-07-15T19:20:12Z

> 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.

Small correction needed regarding the multicast forwarding.
Since we are talking about IPv6 multicast groups, which translate to
33:33:xx:xx:xx:xx MAC address, the router listener notification protocol
is going to be MLD and not IGMP. Still there are switches which support
MLD forwarding to prevent the network flooding.

Alex