Re: ipv6 / rtadv problem

From: Bernd Walter <ticso_at_cicely7.cicely.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:57:59 +0200
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:19:26PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
> On 29/03/2011, at 22:04, Bernd Walter wrote:
> > My assumption is that the problem is with the other host or switch
> > network and you just never noticed this so far because this kind of
> > problem can easily hide for a very long time.
> 
> Hmm, I have pretty stupid hardware, I am fairly sure none of my switches understand multicast.

There are two class of multicast capable switches.
On of them are professional switches of course, but given that IPTV
runs with multicast some cheap manageable switches and quite often
integrated switches in plastic routers support it as well.
IPv4 multicast and IPv6 multicast is very similar, but they use non
colliding MAC ranges, so pure IPv4 multicast switches are not a problem
for IPv6 multicast, but I'm a bit worried that some cheap devices have
alpha quality IPv6 multicast support enabled.

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B.Walter <bernd_at_bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.
Received on Tue Mar 29 2011 - 12:58:04 UTC

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