IPV6 in enterprise best practices/white papaers

TJ trejrco at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 20:04:57 UTC 2013


> Also, if a switch does not do MLD snooping, it will flood multicast to
> all ports. You lose one of the major benefits of IPv6 multicast - less
> admin traffic.

Agreed; but just to be fair: there is still a difference between
multicast being flodded everywhere and boradcast being flooded
everywhere ... L2 interrupt vs. L2+L3 interrupt; bigger difference
than it sounds ;).


/TJ




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