Re: When IBoE will be merged to upstream?

Roland Dreier
2010-07-15T17:53:12Z

> 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.

And by the way I view the fact that the IBoE spec does not say anything
at all about how to map MGIDs to Ethernet addresses as another serious
shortcoming of the spec.

- R.
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