Multiple vendors' IPv6 issues

Bruce Simpson bms at fastmail.net
Sun May 31 16:22:15 UTC 2015


On 27/05/2015 20:35, Brian Rak wrote:
>
> You don't need full promisc mode, just the (poorly documented) 
> allmulticast option (ip link set dev $macvtap allmulticast on)

...And poorly supported on some real hardware (notably Wi-Fi adapters), 
where the hash filter on each NIC's MAC is not guaranteed to support 
"ALLMULTI".

It's a prerequisite for software multicast forwarding, and, it might be 
argued, a good litmus test for IPv6 readiness.




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