Questions tagged [mld]
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Is IPv6 MLD snooping performed by Layer2 Switches over solicited-node multicast addresses?
The NDP protocol makes use of the solicited-node multicast address.
A host joins its own solicited-node multicast address group both localy (netsh int ipv6 show joins) and on the layer2 domain (a wireshark trace shows that a host configured with a…
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Why would IGMP and MLD be required to forward unregistered packets to all ports?
First, a little background: My understanding is that the purpose of IGMP (and its IPv6 cousin, MLD) is to avoid wasted bandwidth by ensuring that multicast packets only get transmitted to destinations that are actually interested in those packets. …
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Multicast Listener Report Message v2
I run an ICMPv6 protocol and I have made a capture using wireshark.
In the capture I have some Multicast Listener Report Message v2. Some of the
has the source ip, the ipv6 link local address, but some of them has :: as the
source address? Please…
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