IPv6 support by wifi systems
Brandon Ross
bross at pobox.com
Tue Feb 12 20:40:54 UTC 2013
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Karl Auer wrote:
> For example, multicast is used by ND, the IPv6 equivalent of ARP. MLD
> snooping means only a few hosts (typically only one, in fact) in the
> subnet see any given ND request. Without MLD snooping, every port in the
> subnet sees it. Or DHCPv6 - without MLD snooping, every port sees all
> client traffic for all DHCP requests; with MLD snooping only the
> routers/relays in the subnet see it. "See" with MLD snooping means "see
> it at all", not "see and ignore it" as in the broadcast world.
Oh really? Exactly when during the ND process does a device send an MLD
message that can be snooped?
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